US Marine Corps Reviews

Current Employee – been working at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Guaranteed paycheck, pride of being a United States Marine, travel, GI bill / Veteran benefits, Medical, Dental.

Cons – Physically / Mentally demanding, long obscured hours, if enlisted you're treated like a child until E-4, slow promotion system, payed next to nothing for first 2 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Fix the promotion system, implement on base recycling, start treating the lower enlisted like people and not children.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at US Marine Corps full-time

Pros – Get a sense of purpose and priority in your life.

Cons – I have no criticism for the USMC

Advice to Senior Management – Don't buy into "new school" ideas... fight to be old school, as ferociously as you can!

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

Current Employee – been working at US Marine Corps

Pros – Growth is as readily available as you want it to be

Cons – Lots of time away from home

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

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

Current Employee – been working at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Experience, free training, stability, leadership skills

Cons – Working hours, living conditions, personal freedom

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to allow us to go to technical training courses

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

Former Employee – worked at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – If you want to do something bigger than yourself and contribute to the safety of your Family and Friends from harsh reality and evil beyond our borders. If you hear the call to serve then you'll do it-- if you don't, then don't bother trying.

Cons – It's tough to have a family and serve in the Corps during a time of war. Almost better just to serve while your still single and young.

Advice to Senior Management – Get some civilian HR to make improvements to A-PES.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Camaraderie. Pride. And the honor of wearing the uniform and doing something greater than yourself. Plus the stable job, paycheck, and health and dental benefits are pretty generous.

Cons – Deploying to dangerous countries and getting shot at.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve the promotion system to reward stars.

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

Current Employee – been working at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The job gives you a sense of purpose and allows you to live a life of service. In the Marine Corps you will travel the country, if not the world, and meet some pretty interesting people along the way. The pay and benefits are more than I would have ever expected from a job where the main 'payment' I get is the opportunity to pay back Uncle Sam for a pampered life up to this point.

Cons – Some fairly major life decisions are out of your hands. Your job coming into the Marine Corps may not quite be what you were expecting. And just when you were hoping for orders to your next duty station on the coast, overseas, ...or anywhere but the desert, you may just get orders to the desert. Don't worry; it's just for 3 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Give Marines more choice in follow-on assignments.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Meaningful work supporting national defense. Organization has a proud and illustrious history with rich culture. Organizational leaders keep faith with its people and their families. Pension plan after twenty years active service.

Cons – Members are required to relocate every three years. Expenses are paid.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good pay and benefits for Officers

Cons – Deployments, lack of control over life decisions

Advice to Senior Management – Give bonuses to keep good leaders. Current bonus structures for field grade officers gives bonuses to good people getting out, therefore, the field grade that stay in are the ones that know they can't succeed on the outside and become terrible leaders. With downsizing it is the perfect time to trim the fat and reward your successful officers with bonuses to stay in not get out. In aviation you have a very few (10%) of your pilots that are WTIs and department heads doing 90% of the work, those are typically your more qualified and important officers yet there is no bonus structure or benefit to those positions other than the pride which luckily those officers typically have. Hope they don't all get out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at US Marine Corps full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Able to travel to other countries I had never heard about. Rapid promotion if you are fit and good with off duty education. Meet variety of people from other countries and different cultures. Able to learn different languages.

Cons – On call 24/7. Very demanding on ones body. Might have to work in very terrible weather snow,rain, dust storms, ect.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend