US Department of Defense Reviews

Pros

If you love our miltiary, you'll love working here. I was very proud to work at the Pentagon. The work is sometimes tough, but you position yourself right with the right folks you can really feel like you're making a difference. The people I worked with were amazingly smart and have such a sense of pride. I sometimes regret that I left, but I had a tough time with some of the policies at the time.

Cons

You have got to be in a place where you accept and to some degree support U.S. military policy as a whole. The Pentagon holds over 26,000 employees, so it can be a bit overwhelming to work there and you can often be pigeon holed into a position. Some bureaus a very political, so you don't want to ever show your true colors if you're with the other party! Also, civlians can often be overlooked or ignored because military members often don't trust anyone not in uniform.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't pigeon hole employees so much. For military leaders, recognize the value that your civilian employess bring to the table and don't assume they don't understand just because they've never worn the uniform.

Pros

Benefits, security of job, salary.

Cons

Slow decision process due to regulations.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Employees of DoD are strongly committed to the mission of the organization.

Cons

The bureaucracy can be a huge challenge to accomplishing simple tasks.

Advice to Senior Management

Eliminate needless layers and reduce the many redundancies across the Services.

Pros

Great benefits, good pay compared with other agencies. Job is fairly easy compared to other agencies, unlimited advancement potiential within the system.

Cons

Work can be slow and boring at times, managment not always involved.

Advice to Senior Management

More involvement with personnel and issues within workcenter

Pros

Geat work / life balance
Benefits are not bad
Very stable

Cons

Salary cap
Not always working with the brightest
Difficult to get remove non-perfomers
Turn-over at the top is slow

Pros

- Like boutique consulting firm inside of government

Cons

- Some days it feels like pushing a million pound rock up a hill

Advice to Senior Management

-Keep up the good work

Pros

Stability and benefits are good

Cons

Not much room for advancement in current organization.

Advice to Senior Management

My management is great nothing negative to say.

Pros

great benefits, and time off

Cons

very political, over bearing on time management

Advice to Senior Management

hire the most qualified not the most well known

Pros

Salieries, travel, benefits, safe, diversity.

Cons

Mediocrity, people live in a bubble and stop growing intellectually.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating teachers like they are a dime a dozen and start treating them like professionals. Provide oppropriate in-service training opportunities. Reinstate eductional leave with salary.

Pros

For the most part, there are processes in place and structure

Cons

Difficult to get promotion. Sometime military and civilian do not work in unison.

Advice to Senior Management

Elitism isn't going to assist in productivity