17 2nd Class Petty Officer Reviews
2nd Class Petty Officers give their job an average rating of 4.3 out of 5.0. The 2nd Class Petty Officers happiest with their jobs are employed by United States Navy with an average rating of 4.4.
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Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"Character building."
What do you like about working at United States Navy?
"Lots of new experiences and challenges. Creative problem solving was essential for mission success."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Do your best, don't give up, and bring extra socks."
What don't you like about working at United States Navy?
"The command structure was not very well trained in modern management techniques."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Listen to your people. They actually do the work, and they have valuable insight that you can't get anywhere else."
2nd Class Petty Officer Career Rating Comparison
What do you like about working at United States Navy?
"Travel and training."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Great experience while young."
What don't you like about working at United States Navy?
"Pay."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Raise the pay."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"GREAT."
What do you like about working at United States Navy?
"Serving my country/travel/camaraderie."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Lots of patience."
What don't you like about working at United States Navy?
"Long deployments without any port calls."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"GO NAVY."
What do you like about working at United States Navy?
"Everything."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Find something you like, go for it."
What don't you like about working at United States Navy?
"The rate I was in was in demand at the time. A LOT!!! of sea time."
What do you like about working at United States Navy?
"The people you meet will be your friends forever. The job itself is easy to do and easy to succeed in."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Try it for 4 years, and if you want to make it a career transfer to the aviation or submarine side of the Navy. Once there long term goals can be meet with little problem and promotional opportunity abounds."
What don't you like about working at United States Navy?
"Since the end of the Cold War and the new war on terrorism the officers behind the desks have lost their purpose. You would find yourself working for five bosses, each one with their own agenda on how to keep their job, and promote themselves over the other four. This would lead to a run-around on important issues that needed to have split decisions made in real time and not at a later date. Often time you would encounter individuals above or below you that really didn't want to be where they were at. Their attitudes would be reflected in their carelessness for their job and for others. Eventually would find yourself watching them do nothing and others doing their job for them. Given time the atmosphere would be they couldn't do work for some strange reason. When pointed out the fact they capable to do so the most common response would be chastised the individual for rocking the boat. This system would leave commands with bodies who were just there to fill space and contribute nothing to the overall mission. If you were a hard worker this would lead to frustration and anger."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"An overhaul of the officer and Chief programs. Often time 5 or 6 individuals would have the command over two or three bodies at best. A better screening process and less billets higher up the command and more billets on the lower ends would alleviate this problem. Also enforcing the contracts of sea-shore rotation would fix the long term bottlenecks in rates and in locations."
Please give us a one liner to describe this review.
"loved every minute of it"
What do you like about working at United States Coast Guard?
"always changing"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"be dedicated"
What don't you like about working at United States Coast Guard?
"deployments"
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