Pros
A majority of the people you work with are excellent and extremely helpful.
Cons
You don’t get to use your investigation skills. Only what your told you can do. In hindsight, when US Marshalls, former Secret Service Agents, and multiple cops quit during training, I should’ve picked up that was a red flag. You are constantly told you are not good enough. You are basically on your own. I told my Field Manager that I felt woefully unprepared and that I would have taken more training for free or paid for it out of pocket. I was told by my first field manager it was “too much of a hassle.” My field trainer left me alone for two days to do his own work, telling me I “didn’t have clearance to shadow him.” Zero work life balance. Expect 6 emails a day to tell you how much you suck, even if you’re meeting metrics. HR is completely unhelpful, so if you have an illness, or a sick family member, don’t expect help. The response I got was “tell us what you want and we’ll tell you if we can accommodate you” Who is supposed to be helping who here? I received additional work while I was out for surgery and my work wasn’t reassigned. Training was inexcusably awful to the point that it had to be revamped. Not that they offered additional training to the people who got crappy training in the first place.
