USDA Rural Development Reviews

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Occasional hiring freezes and occasional reductions in force are possible.

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USDA isn’t hiring right now. This includes internal promotions as well. No lateral movements, nothing. It’s a rough time to be a federal employee.

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Changes can come slowly. Compensation versus performance may not be appropriate

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Upper management are VERY incompetent. They are grandfathered in the old system and have been able to get away with harassment, bullying, and whatever they can do. Horrible management skills and most upper management do not have degrees in business. Please do not work here!

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Government red tape
Never enough employees for the amount of work

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There may be some outside of State offices they may be overlooked for promotions and somewhat slow to change overall.

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Commute to D.C. can be tiresome if you live anywhere but in the district.

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Uncertain future due to changes in administrations and federal budget. Lots of bureaucracy and some remnants of "old boy network" mentality. Not nimble so slow to effect change.

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Because of the perpetual hiring freeze, as people retire or leave they are not replaced and their work is divided up among staff. I had better health care benefits when I was in the private sector. Budget cuts play havoc on any type of long-term planning.

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Poor systems/processes for job responsibilities, typical government red tape (too many hands in the pie, hard to keep things moving in a timely manner), congressional budget mandates funding.....if there are difficulties passing a budget (which there are every year) possibility of a shutdown, or at minimum, very little funding to operate programs is received through the continuing resolution. This affects how much money we have available, which affects how many loans we can fund, which is a measurement on our ratings/goals.......