City of Seattle Reviews

Pros

Excellent work locations
Good work-life balance

Pros

The people here are supportive. Management allows for pretty good autonomy

Advice to Management

Could be better with encouragement of internal transferring

Pros

Autonomy, ability to build a strong team, nice benefits package for term-limited temporary employees (1-3 year appointments) and regular (permanent) staff.

Pros

The best thing about working at the City are the benefits.
Medical, Dental, Vision were top notch. I have not seen any other companies (including tech) that are on par with the City of Seattle.
The City also offers a great pension plan, elective 401k plan. generous PTO with separate sick day allotment.

Some city workers were generally nice but it depends on the department and the division within the department. It isn't surprising that the departments that had the nicer employees were citizen facing groups such as human services, early education.

Otherwise the admin, back-office, IT, accounting depts had plenty of cantankerous, ornery, disagreeable workers.

Advice to Management

Too many resources are spent on non-essential work and people. Shift your resources from the highly paid back-office employees to the divisions that directly serve the public such as human services, early education, parks, homelessness.

Pros

It is a well paying job, and the benefits are very competitive. There are opportunities to advance in the career and plenty of training opportunities as well.

Advice to Management

"Remember thou art mortal." Everyone is human, every one makes mistakes from time to time, so it's good to remember that and stay human to your employees.

Pros

Great environment, awesome co-workers. I really felt appreciated in my work.

Pros

Great working environment, great people, and robust support network.

Advice to Management

To allow operations to be less fragmented, specifically in the criminal division, so that attorneys can follow a case from pre-filing procedures to filing to jury trial and have an incentive to be precise and accurate in their work, as well as a healthy attachment to the victims and witnesses involved. Also, allow for a less fragmented system for prosecution support to encourage higher quality work and more skilled workers to shine and for a healthier relationship between support staff.

Pros

Challenging assignments.
Constant interactions with numerous city departments.

Advice to Management

Provide sufficient orientation and on-boarding.

Pros

Interesting and challenging assignments, meeting people from all departments, health benefits, flexible work hours, free bus pass

Advice to Management

Provide employees a clear understanding of their role, job tasks, and performance expectations; promote growth, instead of boxing people in; communicate with your employees; stop treating admin staff like they are less worthy of dignity and respect because they are not attorneys; stop with the popular-crowd mentality

Pros

Truly great benefits package; some employees are exceptional co-workers; job stability.

Advice to Management

Reward initiative rather than simply the time someone has spent in their position. Recognize and stop the bullying by dysfunctional employees. Live up to RSJI goals.