It's a Job - Anonymous employee King County Employee Review

3.0
Oct 11, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and benefits. Some departments have great programs and assignments...some even have great commraderie among employees! The current elected Executive is more management oriented than the last.

Cons

Top down management, hiring based on who likes you, reinvent the wheel mentality, senior-level management positions are political appointments and may not be 'best-in-class'. Some unions rule the roost...the needs to be more partnerships and what is good for the citizens, not just employees. Management/Services are not based 'best practices' or 'systems thinking' models.

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Pros

Great work life balance Off-site team building yearly if not more Health insurance is top Tier Pay rise yearly

Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

Can feel like you’re being micro managed or watched from the top at times but middle management is usually good at mitigating this.

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