Dr. Q Josef Edwards the New DevsOps at Arxiv - Senior DevSecOps Engineer Cornell University Employee Review

5.0
2 Jun 2025
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Pros

Great pay, excellent benefits, love Evelyn Gordon as my HR Rep A11y, and who was also my recruiter as I got interviewed.

Cons

Again the hazing behavior by the sysadmin on the GitHub repository itself (their username is arxiv) deleted my hard iterative code work to refine and optimize their code as I was deploying their infrastructure onto google cloud at the same time. (I’m also a system cloud architect at google) Like not cool, and that’s why I did a 4 star and not a 5 star. Evelyn Gordon is the 5 star champion it’s the 1 star sysadmin blocking my work that is stipulated in my contract that needs to go.

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5.0
26 Jun 2026
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Pros

free housing, leadership experience, decent pay

Cons

weird hours, slope day, mandatory training and weekly meetings, winter/summer closings

2.0
25 Jun 2026
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Pros

Time off, subsidy for children for college, small grant for childcare, and remote work ability.

Cons

Heavily bureacratic, top-down structure with zero creative ability unless it's around AI. No performance reviews from the bottom-up tell you a lot. Cornell is going through very tough times and employees are overworked, underpaid and have no room to grow or advance and heavy negative sentiment regarding all of the changes happening and further budget cuts. You need to move to another unit and apply to a higher position that way to get any type of promotion, despite your performance, goals and achievements. We get annual SIP that is below inflation and never any performance bonuses.

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