County of San Diego Reviews
Updated May 23, 2022
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- "If the departments focused more on internal growth and company attitude and ethic training, I would've stayed." (in 6 reviews)
- "Some of the supervisors were great, but upper management protected the horrible duds." (in 6 reviews)
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- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Work life balance, lower stress RN positions, decent wages and benefits.
Cons
Management sometimes out of touch with employees, training needs improvements, limited PTO.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Management, bonuses , telecommuting , transportation , flexible schedule
Cons
I don’t find anything wrong .
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
You work from home and work with great people
Cons
As a temp worker you don’t get holidays paid.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Lots of work, lots of variety, and a vast amount of responsibility to build your career and goals over the course of your career.
Cons
Overworked at times Salary base is low compared to total benefits package
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Paid time off - holidays, vacation, sick time are all generous. Not unlimited but better than most retail or consulting jobs. Large organization can allow you to move around if your skills are marketable. Full benefits package - medical, dental, vision, long and short term disability available. PPO/HMO plans. FSA or HSA optional. Benefits depend on your job class. Depending on department and manager training is available if your job affords you available hours for training. Wellness program and incentives. Yoga/ meditation/zumba classes. Discounted produce. Job security for classified "protected" jobs, hard to get fired. Salary is advertised, either step based or broadband. Women and men are hypothetically paid equally. Annual reviews, opportunity for annual raises if you are not at the top of you job salary. Transit/ parking pass reimbursement (partial) Minimal tuition reimbursement Employer discounts thru perkspot, pretty standard for a large organization Access to Anthem EAP services. Pension.
Cons
Bureaucracy. Organizational structure and reliance on chain of command in many departments. Trends to have alot of micro management stories Dictatorships. HR is not a resource, they are more of a cover front. Turn over can be high. Institutional knowledge. New Board of supervisor term limits makes things extremely faced paced and constantly changing. Subject to political will/ politics. Pay can be limiting, not very competitive with private sector. New pension tiers are not as good. Pension automatically comes out of pay check. Lowering take home pay. Once you max out your salary in your position there is no additional financial incentive except to apply for a new job at a higher level. Can limit opportunity for growth and financial incentives. Culture. Extremely high expectations Depending on department work life balance is non existent... work work work and then life
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great team leads very supportive! Training was in-depth prepared you for the position! Everyone is nice and works as a team!
Cons
It was a temporary position that ended pretty quickly, but was given a two week notice. Pay was a little low for the position.
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Great benefits, diverse community to work with, understanding/flexible Supervisors, job security. Flexible with work schedules.
Cons
Can have a high turnover, assignments can be more than the time given to complete task. Somewhat demanding at times. May work night and weekends.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
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It has great job security
Cons
It has a lot of people working there that don't care and do the bare minimum
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
The department i worked helped me a lot.
Cons
Limited time of work and no benefits.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Hard to get fired once you pass probation.
Cons
A lot of workers who don’t care about the work and have bad attitudes. Management does not address bad workers and makes other worker pick up the slack.
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County of San Diego has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 477 reviews left anonymously by employees. 74% of employees would recommend working at County of San Diego to a friend and 65% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -5% over the last 12 months.
74% of County of San Diego employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated County of San Diego 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.7 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at County of San Diego to be coworkers, career development, benefits and the cons to be senior leadership, culture, management.
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