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Poor Work-Life Balance, Understaffed & Low Wages - Assistant Director Columbia University Employee Review

2.0
7 Jan 2025
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Pros

Colleagues are kind and hardworking Good PTO package (the gag is trying to use them) Tuition benefit Professional development opportunities

Cons

Low pay for labor demand HUGE pay disparity for similar roles across the University Poor work-life balance - salaried workers are exploited to work more without compensation & some don’t respect out of office/after working hours boundaries Perpetually understaffed Purposefully limited union roles & anti-union sentiment from management

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5.0
12 June 2026
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Pros

Supportive staff and clear role requirements

Cons

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1.0
12 June 2026
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Pros

The people in the trenches The students The passionate faculty

Cons

Leadership, their inefficiencies and poor decisions Very dysfunctional environment HR does whatever leadership tells them to do, including covering issues by "friends of the boss", This favoritism approach also includes approvals for who gets to work from out of state even when the position can be easily filled by local workers and the creation of new jobs for those that are chosen. Very poor financial decisions. Big big pay on top, Low pay on bottom. Very little room for growth unless someone likes you and you are the right color.

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