City of Raleigh Reviews

Current Employee – been working at City of Raleigh

Pros – Good job security. Pay is decent for job requirements. Management listens.

Cons – Not much motivation/incentive to work hard. Difficult to advance because people stay employed there for so long.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward hard workers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at City of Raleigh full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Offers good benefits and stability in city government. Most departments are offer flexibility in schedules.

Cons – Pay is not as competitive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at City of Raleigh full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Big city work, small city feel

Cons – same as every other kind of police work.

Advice to Senior Management – training, training and more training.

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

Former Employee – worked at City of Raleigh full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great insurance benefits. Most people easy to work with.

Cons – Not much chance for advancement. Moral of employees low.

Advice to Senior Management – Offer more training classes and listen to the employees comments more closely. Find out why employee morale so low.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at City of Raleigh

Pros – Most of the staff is knowledgeable and friendly. The employees are like family. The facility is brand new and a beautiful place to work.

Cons – There can be a lot of politics at times. You can also feel there isn't a lot of information sharing.

Advice to Senior Management – Have more functions that involve the employees (not just lunches) such as sports or get-togethers and outings.

Current Employee – been working at City of Raleigh

Pros – The City has always took pride in the fact that they have never layed any one off.
If a business case can be provided for a new product or service management will usually support it.

Cons – There are 4 IT departments within the City and all of them have very differnent vision.
The main IT department seems to perfer paying contractors to do all the work for projects instead of promoting internal knowledge.

The other 3 are for public safety and most work is handled in house with very little contracting.

This seems to create Silo's and tends to complicate interoperability
.

Also the City has had to cut back benefits and raises over the past few years due to the economy.

Also there are alot of inter departmental politics in every department I have dealt with.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to take a closer look at the effects of their decisions on the workers. Most decisions that are made usually have some unforeseen negative effect on the workers. Please consider discussing major changes with all levels of employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at City of Raleigh

Pros – Lots of training opportunities
Flextime
Good IT support
Good benefits
Grant funding
Opportunity to shift to other positions within the City

Cons – Rewards those who work the system
Drama, brown-nosing
Not always the most qualified people, but about who is friends with who/ political affiliations

Advice to Senior Management – It is more than just who you know. Try to hire qualified people with an interest and passion for what they do. Punish gossiping and office politics and reward those who are inclusive and good leaders.

Current Employee – been working at City of Raleigh

Pros – You get great amount of hours to work.

Cons – The pay is really low for the level of work you are doing.

Advice to Senior Management – Realize the importance of your employees.

Former Employee – worked at City of Raleigh full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The City of Raleigh is a forward-looking municipality in one of the fastest growing regions of the nation, but still has a family atmosphere. People get to know you and you get to know them, and the highest ranking team members always remember your name.

Cons – As with any government agency, budget rules. There is little flexibility in responding to changing realities, especially in the IT realm, where the threat landscape sometimes changes completely day to day. Sometimes paperwork seems to take more effort than it is worth.

Advice to Senior Management – A more flexible quarterly budget process would help departments flexibly plan projects that react to real needs

Former Employee – worked at City of Raleigh

Pros – The city of Charlotte nice to live and work . A family community with activities gear toward family . Housing okay costs are minimal

Cons – City is still developing. A mini Atlanta they are known to be but far from it.

Advice to Senior Management – If you going to build a railroad get people involved that knows transportation. Be careful of unexperienced hires that do not know the business