Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Employee Reviews about "opportunity"

Pros

Stable work with the opportunity to transfer to offices across the nation. 5% matching for retirement fund and paid overtime and comp time when the budget allows.

Cons

Not a great environment for younger workers; it can be stifling to creative or visionary employees. Medical benefits are average.

Pros

* Opportunity to be part of high-profile investigations, kind of matters that you read on the front page of a newspaper. * Opportunity to use cool techniques/technologies to gather information to further your cases.

Cons

* Mediocre management (especially mid-level) at best. Part of the issue is that most mid-to-high level supervisors have little or no private sector experience or proper management training. Most are career government (civilian or former military). And government is not known for churning out good business leaders. Bureau is a government organization, but it is not much different than a big corporate behemoth. Issues at the team/squad-level are not much different than a those experienced within a corporate team. But supervisors have no clue how to deal with them. * Poor technology infrastructure. It is 2019. Everything runs on a tech backend. You can’t further investigations without using a tech. Bureau has the tools. But they are poorly built/maintained. If you want to remember what tech was like back in 2000, join the Bureau. * Poor and burdensome internal processes. Agents or other investigators shouldn’t spend hours dealing with unnecessary admin matters. Even something as simple as a travel request takes an unnecessary amount of time. Learn something from the private sector. * 80/20 rule - 20% of the workforce does the real work while the rest don’t contribute at best or slow you down at worst.