Graduate research assisants need to think carefully about joining this competitive research institution. - Graduate Research Assistant Georgia Tech Employee Review

3.0
1 Oct 2008
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Pros

As a research assistant at Georgia Tech, you can earn a PhD and a somewhat livable income at the same time.

Cons

The system of biological, biomedical science, and engineering education at the level PhD is deeply flawed in the US. There is little oversight as graduate research assistants enter the fiefdom of an academic lab. Waste, abuse of power, manipulation, and mismanagement of graduate research assistants by driven, high profile academics unfortunately seems to be the rule, not the exception.

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

Retirement , benefits , pto, holiday pto

Cons

none i like it here

1.0
6 Mar 2026
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Pros

Great Benefits. That was it

Cons

The pay is egregiously bad. My boss would commonly talk about how teachers are underpaid while unaware that teachers actually make more than financial analysts at Georgia Tech. They have also recently instituted a return to work policy that requires all staff to be back on site 5 days a week. This has led to a lot of turnover and hiring has not kept up from what I've seen leading to overworked employees. In my 2.5 years at tech I realized that the vast majority of people are just trying to run out the clock so they can cash their pension in. This leads to very few motivated workers and it is an easy trap to fall into. Little financial incentives to progress. No end of year bonuses, little annual raises if any at all, and no senior analyst roles mean there are few financial incentives to "try". When I started they had analyst levels 1 through 3 but that abolished and everyone was put under the title of analyst. Overall I would not recommend to anyone unless you are a student looking for expirence.

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