SEIU Reviews

Former Employee – worked at SEIU full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Once can learn solid community organizing skills in organizer positions and government affairs.

Cons – work and life balance is quite bad unless you work for administrative functions of the organization.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SEIU full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great benefits and good compensation working for a good cause.

Cons – Frustratingly bad internal communication and a broken culture.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SEIU as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Good benefits. Work with some very interesting people. A pension (if you can stomach the job for 20 years)

Cons – Long hours, terrible management, office politics that end up dominating your job. Also some members I worked with you could tell that they wanted your job and would try to throw you under the bus for it.

Advice to Senior Management – Ditch the politics and get back to being a movement that is about respecting workers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SEIU full-time

Pros – Excellence, Diversity, Accountability, Transparency, Engaging

Cons – Very systematic and controlled, not the most creative atmosphere

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SEIU full-time

Pros – Casual environment, progressive organizations that cares about changing the political culture. Really diverse group of people.

Cons – Work/life balance is non-existent. Organization is entirely top-heavy, disorganized and will treat their employees poorly. Have restructured the staff too many times, and implemented new plans that ultimately fail. Spend a large amount of time focusing on politics rather than our members.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SEIU

Pros – Many opportunities to work on wide varieties of legal topics. Counsel in the office is very helpful in giving feedback on research and written work.

Cons – Not many downsides to working here. The security team in the lobby are a little aggravating. I spent numerous days in the lobby waiting after forgetting a keycard with the same security guard who never remembered my face.

Current Employee – been working at SEIU full-time for more than a year

Pros – Surrounded by great people and great pay and benefits for helping people

Cons – Your experience depends a lot on who hires you

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SEIU full-time for more than a year

Pros – Traveling around and meeting different people of walks of life.
Being responsible for the livelihood of others

Cons – political and biased
red tape everywhere especially in the field organizing

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SEIU full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good benefits, decent mission, and interesting relationships.

Cons – The office in Salem, Oregon was cold and lacked any sense of growth. The leadership believed what they believed and did not listen to alternative ideas. If you contested held beliefs you would be pushed out. Found there to be prejudice as well.

Advice to Senior Management – Open your ears or watch the union dwindle.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SEIU full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good pay, excellent benefits (strong health insurance, pension, many vacation days)
Overall commitment to social justice values and progressive ideals
Opportunities to work in event, people, and political organizing

Cons – Campaign mentality may be difficulty for some - organization changes its focus of its work and its efforts. Need to be flexible more so than some may be willing.
Introverted people may have some difficulty finding a good fit.
Vacation pay is often not used because of high workload/high commitments.
Staff union has difficulty fighting managers who don't act according to good principles.
Management and staff pay increases will be very low/nonexistent in near future.

Advice to Senior Management – Some managers need to show more consistency between labor union principles and their own principles and practice.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend