Pros
Very casual environment, lots of opportunity to network with some of the brightest minds in the country. You have a chance to teach if you want, and can get assistance with advanced degrees by working with your supervisor to find a way to fold graduate or doctoral work into your job duties.
Cons
Tech is divided into Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). In both cases, most of the funding comes from grant research. However, GTRI tends to have much larger budgets and more reliable work. It functions more like a private business. GTRC is the academic side, and researchers there are basically second class citizens compared to academic faculty. You get no vote, you have no tenure track, and there is no bridge funding. If you're going to be a researcher, you're doing it on your own. It's a lot like being a small business owner constantly restarting every few years. You'll spend as much time chasing money for the next fiscal year as you do actually working on the projects in front of you.
