Pros
Fun social culture. Lots of free after work activities, department lunches & summer friday’s
Cons
Civilian on the outside appears to stand firm in their values and mission, like strengthening lives, helping others & making a difference. However, they do not truly care about their employees, their mental health or well being. You are strictly a means to an end for them. Lower level employees are overworked, under paid and under appreciated. Most employees at Civilian are extremely unhappy & believe the work place is toxic, but don’t speak up as they know they won’t be heard. When doing quarterly employee engagement reviews, certain comments are cherry picked by leadership to display the agency is a good light, while the important, negative comments are pushed aside and ignored. Employees do not feel heard as their concerns are continually discounted, not acknowledged and do not get addressed. Terminations happen left and right at this agency. Performance improvement plans are given to employees, but before they even have a chance to improve, they are fired. There is no time to turn things around, as they have already decided your fate when they put you on the plan. The leadership team pretends to be open to feedback and suggestions, but the second you go against the grain and try to suggest something they disagree with, you are ignored and shut down. Leadership is extremely rigid and inflexible when it comes to making exceptions or altering policies to take a human first approach and show compassion to its employees.