State of California Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at State of California?

"Salary, benefits, and coworkers."

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

"Be aware that CA offers great salary and benefits but that it is a stockholder owned company and must meet certain quarterly plateaus causing constant layoff of personnel."

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"The ever-looming prospect of being laid off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Offer better chances for advancement. Offer better resources in order to complete jobs at hand."

"Great professionalism managed poorly"

What do you like about working at State of California?

"Very interesting and challenging work; Peers very competent, well educated, and professional"

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

"When you are in doubt about the meaning behind a question, remember to say that you will defer to Management or that your job is to serve Management. If you hit it off well with an Executive level person, be sure to stay in close contact and you will go far."

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"Management allowed to run department as their own fiefdom"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Remove Examiners from State employees' union and put them on a par with other states' and federal examiners, remove current management and recruit new management from bank compliance executives"

"Boy was this a mistake....."

What do you like about working at State of California?

"its ajob, it pays,"

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

"If you've worked in the private sector for a very long time , the State will be a rude awakening..."

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"they cant keep me busy enough, I can't promote at this time unless I want to LOOSE money due to furloughs, and there are openings"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"THINK before you act."

What do you like about working at State of California?

"I enjoyed the people."

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

"The company has been retrenching for years. They create few new products internally, and most products are obtained from acquisitions. Make sure you know what you're looking for."

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"Cubicles. Producing more code was valued rather than producing quality code. Code architecture was based on buzz words, rather than the problem to be solved. Loss of buying power of my salary by inadequate raises, as compared to true inflation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs less infighting. Products should be crafted to solve customers' real, not imaginary, problems."

"contract expired good place to work"

What do you like about working at State of California?

"being able to help others"

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"nothing"

What do you like about working at State of California?

"assist inmates do legal work....."

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"not a teaching library"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"need improvement"

"A secure place to work."

What do you like about working at State of California?

"Good advancement"

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"Need long procedure for advancement, lower compensation compared to similar jobs elsewhere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need to change advancement procedure."

What do you like about working at State of California?

"Regular employees were great."

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"Management can't find there way out of the bathroom. No wonder the state is broke."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Quit and get some real managers."

"I spent twenty two years at CA, Most of them great. New executive came in and things changed."

What do you like about working at State of California?

"great opportunites for growth and new initiatives"

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

"Understand long tem vision to create security for a career path"

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"after new executive team came in, loyality and past success's did not have any weight on your value"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take care of the people and do not let knowledge walk out the door"

"Company does not feel stable."

"I sold real estate property part-time through Century 21, during which time I learned a lot of valuable information."

"CA is expensive to live, if it paid real high and I could afford a nice area I would go"

What do you like about working at State of California?

"Warm climate"

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

"I do not"

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"Warm climate and my family is in CA"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would need to watch the flow before any recommendations can be made"

"Standard information"

What do you like about working at State of California?

"Fast pace environment"

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

"Be proactive"

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"MultI duties migration"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more process organize"

"Current employment"

What do you like about working at State of California?

"Nothing"

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"Everything"

"This is difficult, CA is a right to work state which adds burdens on all concerned."

What do you like about working at State of California?

"I enjoyed the people I worked with and still see them at least 1 a month."

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

"Just be yourself."

What don't you like about working at State of California?

"All of the extra costs of insurance, and the lack of public transportation."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay more attention to employee suggestions and needs."