great people and place to work... if you're in the right team - Anonymous employee volpe Employee Review

3.0
14 Jul 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This place has a great work culture-- they encourage employees to work hard, but they understand a need for work/life balance. Great benefits, and if you work over 40 hours a week, you can get the hours over as Overtime (paid time and a half) or as credit hours, which can be used for vacation, or be cashed out when you leave.

Cons

Unfortunately, like most of government service, it is impossible to fire people, and managers are uncomfortable or unable to properly correct bad staff behavior. What this means is that mediocre or even actively terrible employees (I'm talking lazy, on Facebook all the time, or just plain incompetent), are left in the ranks, sucking up precious energy, resources, and morale. Sometimes these troublesome employees are shuffled around from group to group, because managers don't want to deal with them, until they are left in the position where they will do the least amount of damage. It is unfortunate because this generally leads to a lot of stress and decreased morale in the team because team members are left to pick up slack.

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5.0
17 Jun 2025
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Pros

I had so much fun working here and learned a lot... the projects were all so interesting. I also felt lucky to be able to work with so many smart people.

Cons

Not a good time to be employed in the federal government.

2.0
19 Jun 2025
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Pros

they do some pretty interesting work - just wish they had given me more opportunity to be involved in some of those projects.

Cons

feels like it can be hit or miss. it was during covid so it was primarily remote. my supervisor was not very present and got a lot of busy work to do and was not given much agency or ownership over work

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