Pros
I guess the name brand
Cons
They treated me worse than a technician since I was basically a glorified secretary. They got mad at me unless I worked 14-16 hours a day for less than 30k a year after graduating from an ivy league school even though none of the postdocs worked more than 6 hours a day. All I did was schedule patient meetings and they said if I wanted any learning opportunities I had to get them on my own time which they didn't even leave me time for and everything that went wrong regardless of whether it was my fault, such as patients not showing up to appointments, was blamed on me. They didn't even allow me to go to poster sessions that every other IRTA went to, since I hadn't finished scheduling enough patients which was impossible since half of them would by default not show up anyways. Half the IRTAs in my lab rage quit before their time was up. I wish I had done the same long ago as I got nothing out of it as all I did was scheduling and I got no posters abstracts or publication. I finally rage quit after my boss sent me an angry email for not coming in and working/ managing schedules on Christmas eve, which was announced to be a holiday for every other NIH employee, while my boss himself took 2 weeks off.