Great place to work! - Legal Intern Environmental Protection Agency Employee Review

Cons

Often get stuck working with colleagues who are sub-par

Cons

-Bifurcation of HR Shared Service Center and OHR means SSC leadership has too much power and faces zero accountability whatsoever; -Managers blame HR for hiring delays rather than addressing the root cause of their high turnover rate - toxic leadership styles that make people leave; -Desperate to retain staff, senior officials in the region offices convinced HQ to stop "poaching" the regions of their staff by restricting detail/temp promotion opportunities in HQ offices to staff who are already within the HQ office/AAship, i.e. deprive regional staff of opportunities to advance their careers; -OHR is more concerned with reacting to and putting out fires than they are about being proactive/forward thinking, giving managers a sense of direction, and preventing things from spiraling out of control; -Understaffing is normalized due to wasteful recruitment & outreach practices and the agency's inability to effectively train and care for its staff, meaning people are constantly pulled in a million directions and pushed to their limits; -Strong biases for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and Veterans, where RPCVs are groomed for management and some hiring officials encourage the use of RPCV and Direct Hire authorities to subvert veterans' preference; -With so many employees who have spent their entire careers at the agency, people struggle to adapt and go to great lengths to resist change; -Every region/AAship has its own way of doing things and seldom communicates with one another, resulting in widespread information siloes