Arizona Department of Economic Security Reviews

Pros

Some of the families you are helping truly do need someone to coordinate all the care a child with developmental disabilities needs. It's rewarding to help in those cases.

Cons

Very large caseloads with little to no acceleration period. This is due to many factors but high staff turn over is certainly one. The pay is incredibly low and advancing in the field is a cryptic maze. The value of paperwork you are expected to complete for each case is truly insane.

Pros

They finally gave raises to the front line

Cons

-Virtually everything -The raises don't do anything given how employees are treated.

Pros

Team is great and supportive Benefits are good Work/life balance is great Always room for promotions

Cons

Little disorganized at times, but working on getting better

Pros

I use to love helping people.

Cons

This place is toxic to the core. They do not care about the community or the people weare supposed to help. They treat the employees like we are not even human. Its not how hard you work its who you know. If your not a favorite or related to someone its a dead end job.

Pros

Good Benefits and WFH is nice

Cons

Little room for promotion is several departments

Pros

Steady paycheck. Az State Retirement. Decent medical and dental benefits.

Cons

People in positions of management who don't know what they're doing. Staff promoted based on ethnic/racial quotas and not on performance or job knowledge. Poorly run. Understaffed. Underpaid. Unrealistic caseloads. Unrealistic expectations of investigators.

Pros

If you like to help people this is a great job. It is rewarding to make a difference in your clients lives. The benefits are good and there are opportunities to move up

Cons

As a new supervisor there was never enough time to get done what they required of you... Subsequently I always felt like I had a choice of doing a crap job and getting the job done or always being behind. Success seemed to me more of a matter of being able to BS your way through reports, reviews and data. In a meeting a coworker out right lied about his stats. NO ONE CALLED HIM ON IT.

Pros

it started out good but as soon as you get in the door things change

Cons

time not suppotive and dont work for the employee

Pros

Great benefit options to choose from.

Cons

Pay could be more. Hard to move up in local offices unless you are good friends with management team. Although there are great benefits the more that you want your paycheck just gets lower and lower. I think with the benefits that I had I was bringing home half of the pay that I was getting in with the pay being so little it wasn't much.

Pros

I can’t think of one good thing about DDD/DES. I hope AZ for Better Medicaid make things better for their members.

Cons

Horrible pay Systemic operational problems and risks Racist and Bias culture More Medicaid violations then you can imagine Access to care violations Non-Credential providing care W/o site inspections Horrible coordination of care