Georgia Tech Reviews

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

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

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

lots of smart people to interact with, good library facilities and technological infrastructure, approachbale Professors, good teaching standards, solid connections with various comapnies

Cons

Too much politics in academia (in the ECE dept) which makes it difficult to collaborate on research projects and allow upward movement

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the amount of politics (in the ECE dept), focus more on assignments and projects as teaching/assessment tools rather than simply exams

Pros

Benefits
Vacation
Pride in working at Tech
Freedom to self manage
Co-workers are firnedly and helpful
Flex schedule
Staet employee discounts

Cons

Human resources department unheplful and not knowledgable
No annual raises.
Limited opportunity for advancement
Management is not tranparent
Supervisers do not seek employee input
Being asked to do more and more work as others are laid off -w/out proper compensation

Advice to Senior Management

Create a clear path to promotion
Communicate changes honestly and openly.
Create a real huma Resources position for each school and or department.

Pros

Teachers are good, helpful, and for the most part, have been in the real world. This makes learning from them a lot easier than a simple academic.

Cons

Some professors are conecerned with their research, and their research alone. This leads them to neglect their classes, and not effectively teach the subjects at hand.

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.

Pros

good engineering school, high reputation

Cons

low student pay, high tuition and fee

Advice to Senior Management

pay more to GRA

Pros

Georgia Tech is a great place to work because you are exposed to an elite research institution as well as a great engineering school

Cons

I would say that the school can place to much emphasis on research to the detriment of undergrad students in some cases.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is overall solid. The school boasts some of the best professors in management and engineering. This is further validated by the outstanding rankings the school get year over year.

Pros

Excellent facilities, good benefits, good opportunities.

Cons

Pay in some labs for postdocs is not so great.