City of Austin Texas Reviews

Pros

Job security, lots of room for advancement, ability to transfer to different depts, good pay, great benefits, tuition reimbursement, caring management, great co-workers, accepts weird people, fair treatment, union membership if you want, now civil service -one of the best places I've ever worked & I'm 56 yrs old.

Advice to Management

raise our pay so we can afford to live in Austin or subsidize our pay with housing allowance. I can't pay $1,000 in rent when I only take home $1400 per month net; make it easier for employees to get to work; truly fund attempts to get employees to use public transportation,

Pros

Sometimes rewarding, sometimes get free items for working harder, sometimes get free food. Don't count on it. Pretty scenery if working at Barton Springs.

Advice to Management

Manage.

Pros

No responsibility, no accountability, and absolutely no honest communication! Come to work whenever you get there. Leave whenever you want. Just keep smiling and telling everyone what a great job they are doing. Complete and utter incompetence is the goal! It is a great place to work if you don’t mind doing the next wrong thing with a smile. The only unhappy people are the newbies. But if you stay long enough you will learn not to think or ask why. Upon witnessing an unbelievable act of blatant incompetency you too will laugh along with everyone else; congratulate the perpetrator for a job well done, and go to lunch for the afternoon, without a hint of remorse or guilt. Great place to hang out – leave the work to the temps and contractors.

Advice to Management

How the heck did you get that job! Oh longevity! Ha, ha, ha, job well done!

Pros

Great benefits, great place to work. Very family oriented place to work. Real pension.

Pros

Progressive culture, genuine concern for making the best decisions to benefit citizens as well as City

Pros

Good benefits, great city and lots of opportunity once you are working for the City

Advice to Management

Hire on merit and ability, not because the person has been there 20 years

Pros

Great Can-do people, a healthy promoting environment

Advice to Management

City of Austin is a great environment, they are doing a great job !

Pros

Benefit package is fantastic and everyone was friendly

Advice to Management

I had a fantastic experience!

Pros

long term company to work for.

Advice to Management

management was good and understanding

Pros

City of Austin water Department is best place to work. I worked for 32 years and I loved my work as under and above ground all types of utility and Street reconstruction projects coordinating job. I reviewed proposed utility project plans and profiles. I worked with consultant for permitting projects.

Advice to Management

To make all consultants fallow the all City of Austin stranded and TCQ rules and recheck their proposed project plans. These will speed up for plan approving and permitting process.