Sound Transit Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I have started capstone project with SoundTransit this January. I worked up as a Hardware engineer for designing a computer vision system. SoundTransit is an open company and welcomes diverse thinking in my project. I feel like I have more creative ideas in my project and cultivate my ability to think out of the box."

"I've worked at SoundTransit since 2017. It is a regional transit authority in the midst of the largest mass transit expansion in the history of the US. Challenging work, committed employees and a commitment to diversity and inclusion make SoundTransit a great place to work!"

What do you like about working at Sound Transit?

"Sound Transit has a nice culture and very friendly people that are willing to help out"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would suggest learn as much as you can. I would suggest that no matter what company a person would interview at"

What don't you like about working at Sound Transit?

"There is not much I don't like about Sound Transit, but I do wish there was more room for advancement"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think I would suggest starting a mentorship program. I would like to see ST reach out to the community for more internship"

What do you like about working at Sound Transit?

"We get to do a lot of different things although training money is slim."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Love the mission of the company. Understand what you will be getting into and what the job really is."

What don't you like about working at Sound Transit?

"We need more of a strategic direction in IT. We have too much to do to do a good job. Priorities shift often. Poor behavior is ignored."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't lean only on the high performers while keeping poor performers around. Tell customers no occasionally."

"Good experience in quasi-government agencies."

"Great Project - poor management"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Coming from the outside for a management position is a step ahead."

What don't you like about working at Sound Transit?

"Sound Transit has a tradition of hiring from outside for management and above positions. People working in the position for well over a year are continuously passed over. There is also an amazingly sexist attitude that runs unabated there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management does not take suggestions, but if they did, they should check some of their management for the sexist comments consistently made; and look more closely at the talent they have for management positions. They have lost a lot of good people who have left (voluntarily) because of these frustrations."

"Honest"

What do you like about working at Sound Transit?

"I really enjoyed working with the people."

What don't you like about working at Sound Transit?

"Having been an experienced Senior level manager, some of the management staff are woefully and signficantly incompetent when it comes to managing employees. They lack good management skills and are poor practioners of good management practices.Morale in some departments is really low and that is a direct result of the managers in those departments."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The need to hire the right person...really take the time and effort to hire the right person. Skills as a manager don't come from certifications, credentials, advanced degrees or professional degrees. Stop, Stop, Stop, being dazzled by the form, you need to look at the substance. Good management, that is, the ability to manage people comes from within, from the heart and from experience. You can find out about a potential manager by asking previous employer's workforces what kind of manager the prospective candidate was. Don't rely on management to give information about another manager, dig deep because managers tend to support one another no matter how terrible the one manager might have been. Take time to identify good management training programs and treat it from the development approach. Good managers are not born, they are made. Hire people who have a strong work history of demonstrating a high level of actions that were morally and ethically right."

"Great benefits, secure, and possibilities for personal growth"

What do you like about working at Sound Transit?

"Flexibility"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Highlight your education and show a lot of respect"

What don't you like about working at Sound Transit?

"too much politics"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get more education"

"Good place to work, but it was still government."

What do you like about working at Sound Transit?

"Good people, and a great project"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just know what you are getting into."

What don't you like about working at Sound Transit?

"It was govenment work so lots of beaucracy to get anything done. and the pay rate was less than the public sector"