Georgia Tech Reviews in Atlanta, GA Area

Pros

Flexible scheduling make abetting off easy.

Cons

Strict rules and tons of training

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you do.

Pros

Stable, not too many long hours, good HMO

Cons

Increasing layoff with budget cuts, salary raises are remote.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to rework policies to attract more research funding.

Pros

free housing, lots of interaction with college students, gain leadership experience, close knit teams of residential advisors, programming and conflict resolution training

Cons

a lot of work, very low pay, and a lot of long nights on duty where you are not guaranteed a full night of sleep

Advice to Senior Management

Provide better living arrangement options for residential advisors, be flexible with programming requirements (quality ranked over quantity!), and be VERY careful to introduce loud construction near residence halls.

Pros

Georgia Tech is a good employer. Georgia Tech is located in Midtown Atlanta, which is a great area. Campus culture is good.

Cons

Traffic is bad and the campus is still in development. Campus culture is good but can use some more improvement.

Advice to Senior Management

Expansion of the curriculum and mission of the institute should be considered. Georgia Tech should continue moving on the path of being a great business partner.

Pros

Great People
Great Students
The state of the art facilities make everything more enjoyable. Midtown Atlanta is bustling with things to do.

Cons

The traffic coming to work and going home from work is awful sometimes.
The crime incidences are increasing. You must be careful where you go at night.

Advice to Senior Management

I think that the upper management at Georgia Tech is doing a good job. The school continues to grow and thrive.

Pros

Georgia Tech has good academic reputation, well recognized in the country. The location is good and the cost of living in Atlanta is not very high. The salary is good taking into account the cost of living in Atlanta. Staffs are very professional.

Cons

Not super prestigious like MIT
Parking on campus is kinda expensive
Not very safe to walk around at night alone in the city

Pros

The students are wonderful and very respectful.

Cons

Supervisors do not support advancement or raises for employees. Directors and above are making six figures while others are below 50K.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider those doing the work-are you so selfish that you want to go happily home with your six figure salaries and say to heck with others? Can you live on 50K a year? Would you want your students to know what you make vs what the people that really work with students make? Are you being fair to the professional staff members?

Pros

Fair salary for the Atlanta area. Enough to get by. Research faculty are top notch and the facilities are competitive with anywhere other university in the country.

Cons

Administration are not fully appreciative of their employees. Very rigid on protocol, raise fees for graduate students every few semesters. While my immediate boss, who is my contact for all of my research, was amazing, the administration of the institute was quite rude and unpleasant.

Advice to Senior Management

Research staff, you're doing a great job. Administrative staff, at least try to mask the fact that you want to run the institute like a business.

Pros

You can learn a lot from the professors and also concentrate on your own interesting problems. People are brilliant here and they can understand where your problems lie in quickly.

Cons

You have to work hard at Georgia Tech. It is not the place where you can relax and have good achievement. You have to really devote into what you are doing now, otherwise, your professor can tell.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership at Georgia Tech is good. We have activities from time to time, and also we enjoy the freedom you have on choosing your own interesting things.

Pros

There is no shortage of challenging problems and equally no shortage of resources to help you solve them. If you like working on challenging problems, this is the place. Plus one can easily leverage the skills that you learn here and apply it to any other field at the end of your tenure.

Cons

At times, an individual's ego can get in the way of progress.