Denver Reviews

Pros

its Government - low stress. City has money, good technologies to work with are available.

Cons

its government - a lot of people just slide by. It can be frustrating sometimes

Pros

Get to work with some talented & diverse employees.
Excellent leadership at DIA in terms of competence and integrity.
Beautiful professional facilities.
Interesting work.
Helpful employees.
Supportive & competent HR generalists.

Cons

Benefits are expensive & not great.
Work/life balance is dispersed unfairly in the dept. I am in.
CSA lacks competent leadership and is self-serving.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure the new CSA Executive Director has integrity,an HR/ training background, and cares more about serving the customer (employees & managers) than what the City Auditor or Westword thinks about them. Investigate the favortism shown in CSA at the highest levels.

Pros

Stable working environment
Professional people
Enterprise technologies

Cons

Slow to get things done
no good work/life balance
changes in mayoral administrations.

Pros

Good benefits and somewhat a secure job. The Downtown building offers a lot of amenities, i.e food courts, gym, close to public transportation.

Cons

It's hard to be promoted, a lot of special favors to friends and close allies. Currently, hiring is at the lower scale and it's difficult to get increases. There is a lack of leadership to control the hostility between groups

Advice to Senior Management

Please train your supervisors, especially if they are coming from a strong technical background but with a lack of formal education. It is not necessary that a technical person could be a good supervisor.

Pros

Easy work, left to your own

Cons

Have to deal with entitled taxpayers

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on, keeping on

Pros

City and County of Denver has great benefits and trainings.

Cons

After working 4 yrs, there have been 2 yrs with zero raises.

Pros

Once you get your foot in the door for a permanent position, there is some job security. If youre happy with doing the same or similar job for several years if not decades, this is the place for you.

Cons

Promotion is limited. Raises are infrequent. If you find yourself in the position of serving in your job and as interim in another position (which is likely due to cutbacks) do not expect extra pay unless youre personal friends of the people in charge. Do not expect a job evaluation to create a newer higher paying position unless the same circumstances apply. Nepotism and politics are alive and well in the City & County of Denver. It doesnt pay to just be an exceptional employee.

Advice to Senior Management

Be fair. Be consistent.

Pros

Overall the benefits were pretty good. I had a very wide variety of duties in my position which made work quite challenging, but lack of focus by upper management was hard for me to get used to having come from private sector into a much more political organization.

Cons

Incompetency abounds. Very hard to discipline and improve work performance of the long time employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Move on, let someone else take over and start effectively using taxpayers money.

Pros

The benefit packages offered by the City and County of Denver are best part of the deal. Great health benefits.

Cons

There is really no promotion potential at the City and County of Denver. For the highest jobs they prefer to higher from outside. Looking at a job description can make you feel that you are applying for a great job then when you start you find out that the job is not as great as they made it out to be.

Advice to Senior Management

They should find a way to be able to promote their own people so that talent is more willing to stay at City and County of Denver.

Pros

The compensation, pay and benefits are above most other local government jobs and the state jobs too, about the most stable place outside the military I have worked, location you have the rockie mountains and all the sports you can handle, not a lot of grief, you are allowed to do your job without management hounding you about what you are doing.

Cons

for wizards you can do better in private sector if you are still climbing, promoted to highest level of incompetency, no telecommuting, Tv stations hound the city on open records so you are subject to TV reporter investagations all the time, most unfounded but still not always the most fun to deal with.

Advice to Senior Management

clear the dead weight, to many special project personnel