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65% Recommend to a Friend
29% Approve of CEO
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Jenny Durkan
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- "Some great people to work with (usually the individual contributors) and it's interesting to see how a city operates." (in 39 reviews)
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- "Management has no commitment to stick around to see the damage of their poor decisions." (in 27 reviews)
- "FAS has poor leadership starting at the very top trickling down to the lower managers." (in 15 reviews)
- "Those managers have hired managers who are also not good managers because they themselves are not good managers." (in 14 reviews)
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Found 549 of over 674 reviews
Updated Sep 18, 2023
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- 5.0Sep 16, 2023Information TechnologyCurrent Employee
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Salary is great. Backed by union.
Cons
Takes forever to get things approved
- 4.0Sep 18, 2023Legal AssistantCurrent EmployeeSeattle, WA
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Very pleasant benefits for working
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They work for the state
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City of Seattle has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 674 reviews left anonymously by employees. 65% of employees would recommend working at City of Seattle to a friend and 48% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
65% of City of Seattle employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated City of Seattle 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.6 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.
