City of Seattle Reviews
Updated May 23, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "Some great people to work with (usually the individual contributors) and it's interesting to see how a city operates." (in 40 reviews)
- "Naturally, lots of exposure to all kinds of professions due to a dense work environment." (in 12 reviews)
- "Management has no commitment to stick around to see the damage of their poor decisions." (in 26 reviews)
- "Toxic work environment, unqualified and incompetent leadership, painful bureaucracy" (in 8 reviews)
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- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Coworkers are nice, good job environment
Cons
With the West Seattle bridge out, the commute is not the best.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Good work life balance, kind and caring colleagues who care about our work and aren't phoning it in
Cons
Low compensation. I now make around $140k for my role but I get offers in the private sector for closer to $750k. I'm leaving ASAP, which is once my pension vests, my Landed home loan is paid off, and I am done with PSLF and my giant student loan is forgiven.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great place to work, decent benefits.
Cons
Lot of politics in the area.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good work environment, Cutting edge Technology
Cons
High cost of living, Not a lot of sunshine
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Make a difference in the lives of children , youth, and their families while earning a living wage
RecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
You can earn a living wage while doing some good in the world. Great benefits package and generous paid leave. Access to company car and discounted transit pass. The workforce and the community you serve are very diverse. Duties are split between working in an office and out in the public. Being a civil service job you may have access to some college loan forgiveness programs.
Cons
The work is ever changing and can be highly political at times. Department direction and leadership is subject to change with each new Mayoral administration. Due to the ever changing and high paced nature of the work transparency and communication sometimes gets compromised.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good Benefits, that is about it
Cons
Management cant work together and the team moral suffers from their poor communication.
- Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Pay was the only decent thing
Cons
Constant mandatory anti-white training that they call Race and Social Justice Training. Fired hundred of people for not getting a vaccine that is proven to not prevent or slow the spread. Even though the medical services officer and hundreds of firefighters had genuine concerns that fell of deaf ears.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
There are loads of resources if you seek them out and the pay is very good.
Cons
Every department, division, and office is different and there is no continuity or cohesion.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
I like working here, and will continue to do so.
Cons
I don't really have any cons.
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
They pay and benefits are pretty good
Cons
Politics over policy and logic; which is bad business and toxic to work environment
City of Seattle Reviews FAQs
City of Seattle has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 574 reviews left anonymously by employees. 78% of employees would recommend working at City of Seattle to a friend and 57% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -4% over the last 12 months.
78% of City of Seattle employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated City of Seattle 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at City of Seattle to be career development, coworkers, benefits and the cons to be senior leadership, culture, management.
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