Georgia Tech Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Georgia Tech offers unlimited opportunities for professional development: credit courses, noncredit courses, seminars, workshops, conferences, webinars, and more. Continuous professional development is highly stressed and employees are granted the opportunity to take full advantage of those learning opportunities.

Cons – Like any large institution, sometimes the bureaucracy limits the rate of innovation and constrains employee initiatives at times, but not unduly so.

Advice to Senior Management – Diversity sometimes seems to be only a slogan.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech

Pros – Georgia Tech has excellent colleagues

Cons – Salary freezes can be demotivating.

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech part-time for less than a year

Pros – Access to great research projects, good support from the administration, especially for international students. The tuition discount is well worth getting the job as well. The nature of the work will vary depending on which department you work for, of course, but there are many opportunities for grad student assistants to work with other research groups and collaborate.

Cons – It can be hard to balance the RA work with your class work, and Tech is notorious for a deeply invested work culture.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits, easy to work with HR department

Cons – Some positions funded on grant dollars and are unstable, little uniformity of pay for the same position

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech part-time for more than a year

Pros – It's great working for a school on the verge of everything. They are in the forefront of everything.

Cons – The parking is ridiculous because its located in the middle of Atlanta.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Job security, great benefits, education is encouraged, and generally good people to work with. Job growth is supported and pushed for. Diverse work place both ethnicity and gender.

Cons – Low salary, no raises in 4 years because it is a government job. As staff faculty can treat you badly and get away with it in some schools/colleges. Even as IT you are/can be viewed as subordinate. Parking is expensive at $700. Bad employees are hard to get rid off.

Advice to Senior Management – Staff should not be walked on by faculty. Don't breed a culture of fear that stifles bringing new ideas and issues to the table. Do a better job of hiring staff with common sense.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Georgia Tech part-time for less than a year

Pros – Management are professionals and are willing to show you how to do something better

Cons – Poor budget management is the only thing I can think of

Advice to Senior Management – Manage fiscal budget better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Extremely intelligent and hard-working colleagues
- Huge variety of work in all fields of civil and environmental engineering
- Professors are very intelligent and knowledgeable
- Top 5 engineering school
- Tons of extracurricular opportunities

Cons – - Sometimes engineers are lacking in social acumen
- Teaching is not emphasized to the same extent as research. As a result, the quality of the teaching is entirely dependent on the will of the professor, and most professors view teaching as a chore.
- Doesn't have the prestige of MIT or Berkeley, even though we are highly ranked
- Dearth of attractive women

Advice to Senior Management – - Stop raising student fees. Grow the university sustainably.
- Improve standards for teaching

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Georgia Tech full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good exposure to current research

Cons – Long hours and tight schedules

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Georgia Tech part-time for less than a year

Pros – Very flexible in terms of time and location. I can do work anytime anywhere (I am a programmer) as long as I do the work!

Cons – Do not really see any cons. Maybe pays are not as good as the "real" jobs.

Advice to Senior Management – Everything is going great for me

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend