Pros
Wonderful colleagues; slightly higher pay compared to surrounding counties
Cons
Seem to be stuck in continually doing things "they way they've always been done" with most managers being baby boomers who have worked here decades and many new employees who are millennials and GenX-ers. These groups have very different view points of how things can be executed, and many upper managers don't feel comfortable allowing the younger generation creative freedom to try new ways of getting work done. Diiferent bureaus are different within solano county, so the area in which you work makes a huge difference in your experience here. As you would guess, we are often understaffed and 1 employee often does the work of 2 or 3. It is a mundane, outdated, cubicle landscape of gray walls and intermingled conversations (cubicles aren't walls). If you want a job where once you pass probation, you can sit pretty and basically never get fired, this place is for you. But if you want a place where you want your creativity to develop and have autonomy over the work you do, ehhhh...prolly not. Also, not a lot of promotion potential; if you want to advance, you have to apply to the position you want, just like you were an outside applicant; you can only move laterally within the org within your same position to a different bureau.