British Columbia Institute of Technology Employee Reviews

BCIT provides various learning and career opportunities to employees, faculty and management. In order to be familiar with the work, I advise new employees to experience a full academic calendar to get a full picture of the role and responsibilities.

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Awesome School

Student (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 21 September 2018

great school with awesome teachers who care about the students and want to see them succeed and do better. course content can be very tough but help is always available whenever needed.

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Insights into British Columbia Institute of Technology

Based on 25 survey responses

What people like

Time and location flexibility
Inclusive work environment
Feeling of personal appreciation

Autonomy

Creator & Instructor, Music Business Program (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 27 August 2018

Teaching in the part-time studies program provides complete autonomy for the course materials and direction of learning that I am able to bring to my course.

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Terrible senior management

Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 22 August 2018

Student Services Management are terrible. It used to be a good place to work, but over the last few years has gone downhill. No appreciation or respect. The office is not managed properly and has become toxic. Management wonders why the Employee Engagement Survey produced such low numbers in all aspects. Sometimes money just isn't enough.

Pros

Pay and benefits

Cons

Management and toxic work environment

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Productive and fun place to work

Recreation Aide / Student staff (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 31 May 2018

I worked as a student staff in the recreational department, but the full time staff there were amazing. They kept the atmosphere positive and were always willing to help.

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Excellent Work Enviroment

Peer Tutor (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 3 May 2018

This a very good place to work. all instructors and staff are very polite and helpful. Learning commons team is very concise and very organized team. It's a very challenging environment to learn and tutor. I love to work there.

Pros

synergy, work environment

Cons

salary

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Terrible work culture and coworkers

Staff tech (Former Employee) - BC - 29 April 2018

If you enjoy coworkers smiling in front of you and then behind your back talking smack about you, join BCIT. I worked in an area that is supposed to be dictated by your own work pace but that was quickly thrown out the window. Be careful of the your coworkers here, salary is okay and work is easy enough. Would have made a wonderful permanent job if it wasn’t for the work culture here represented by the awful culture and disrespect.

Pros

Easy work, salary is ok

Cons

Work culture, coworkers disrespecting you

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Open the lab. do your homework, then clean and lock up when your done. Easy money.

Lab Supervisor (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 26 April 2018

Such an easy job. You open the lab for the students, do your home work in the lab, then clean close the lab. You are just there to make sure no one steals anything and to clean up once your done. Cleaning is just coiling a few wires, and making sure everything is in its place. Since the students a trained to put everything away when they are done there often isn't any mess the clean. you don't even need to talk with your boss outside of the first day. You're going to be at school after hours anyways, might as well make some free money.

Pros

Easy, Get paid to do your homework, No boss.

Cons

Lots of competition for the job. No guarantee of getting it next year.

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learned so much

Welder Foundation Program (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 16 March 2018

learned so many valuable skills for the next step in my employment journey advanced equiment and instruction. the best training in all of canada in my opinion.

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OK work environment

Part-time Guest Lecturer (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 26 February 2018

OK work environment. Had to run around to get what I need; had to make my own photocopies; needed extra time to request for other visual aids; could not get hold of person in charge of operations when needed.

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Good Benefits , Boring Life

IT Helpdesk Analyst (Current Employee) - burnaby , BC - 7 February 2018

If you want your stereotypical stale office job with good benefits and job security , BCIT is the place for you . BCIT is government funded which means slow work pace , if you're someone who likes being busy and always having something to do , avoid this place

Pros

relaxed, paid breaks

Cons

boring, stale culture

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BCIT is the best to get a job as sonn as possible

Project Coordinator (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 10 August 2017

Getting a chance to work or study in BCIT is pretty useful for your career. After graduation, you could apply for a job since you already have two year experience in your industry. Definitely worth it.

Pros

easy to get a job

Cons

hard to graduate

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Leisure job

Civil Design Technologist (Former Employee) - Surrey, BC - 25 July 2017

Great atmosphere to work, with an open office concept. Management are courteous and friendly, the organization values family and team bonding. You are in charge of your own success.

Pros

Free time

Cons

Not much action

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good environment

STUDENT LIFE AMBASSADOR (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 17 July 2017

great people to work with very good direction from supervisor funny place to work flexibility in shifts provide a balance between personal, professional and academic life

Pros

flexiblity

Cons

low wage

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Bureaucratic

PROG COORD - BCIT OP Mgt Part Time Studies (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 7 July 2017

Great job on paper and for the first few years, it was. Like running a small business but impossible to share in the upside. Creating and marketing product for industry market. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic pain one must experience to make change was unbearable. Great instructors to manage. Dedicated and loved what they do.

Pros

Lots of vacation

Cons

Bureaucratic

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Good place to work

BCIT Peer Tutor (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 1 June 2017

Two-hour shift with maximum of six hours per week Meeting a lot of students Good learning environment and very kind supervisor The hardest part is to memorize and explaining stuff that you have learn to other students effectively

Pros

Nice supervisor, friendly colledges

Cons

Limited working hours per week

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Intense

Instructor Automation & Instrumentation (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 13 May 2017

Great place, never dull, but will suck you dry! Was great for the first fifteen years. After that, it was not so much fun. Imagine having your skill-set become obsolete every 5 to 8 years. Oh, try and keep up with Microsoft: started out with Version 1.0. What a waste of effort.

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A good place to work and with interesting people.

Director of Project Services (Current Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 10 May 2017

Working at BCIT is both demanding and engaging. I would say that the type of work and the variety of work makes it an attractive place to work. You get to work with a lot of people who are expert matter professionals in their field or with research people, who have interesting projects.

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Professional coworkers

Internship at International Student Entry Program (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 14 April 2017

Working at BCIT was a good experience for me because I could learn from highly professional coworkers. They are very helpful and cooperative in many ways.

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School

Student Project (Former Employee) - Chilliwack, BC - 22 March 2017

I am working on a year-long project that involves baseline inventories of fish, mammals and vegetation. It is a very rewarding job where there are long days in cold and rain but I know in the end it brings about valuable information. Being a big group, it is sometimes hard to coordinate times to go out and collect data.

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Set Rep

Set Representative (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 21 March 2017

My position was as Set Representative, basically a class president in my cohort. Was able to closely work with the faculty members when it came to enacting new programs and initiatives. Work is fairly minimal as you are only required to attend one meeting per month, max 5 hours. (Wasn't paid as it is a volunteer position) but highly recommend.

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