U.S. Department of Defense Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great experience working with the government."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Great time working with Department of Defense civilians. Enjoyed meeting senior military visitors."

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

"Please review your job positions before you apply and make sure you understand your position."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Increase vacation time for first year employees. Every six months is too long."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to hire retired military to fill your open positions."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"I feel like what I'm doing is making a difference."

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

"Opportunities to excel are on a limited basis and subjected to timelines."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Everything I've described has not been very positive thus far."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would work harder to develop the team mentality in the organization."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Military culture of team work and mission focus. Everyone is friendly and there is little drama. People get along with each other and management has the best intentions."

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

"Do not complain about your current position. Focus on what you do well and how you will contribute to the mission. Demonstrate how you are a team player and that you believe that a rising tide lifts all boats. Show how you go above and beyond to do more than just check the box in your jobs. Show a positive attitude and a calm, clear demeanor."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"It's boring. The performance is very low. Management is resistant to change. People who try to do things differently are punished by resistance and complaining. I have no opportunity for growth in my current position but make too much money to easily transition to another career field at my salary grade."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus on performance and reward the top performers. Break the status quo and don't be afraid to innovate and change. Stop doing things the same way they have always been done. Be open to being uncomfortable and having some people not happy."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Pretentious and ill informed managers make life completely miserable while working there."

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

"Be prepared to walk in the door with drive and anticipation and have it all sapped within the first 6 months with words like, Well that is a good idea but it won't work here."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Pay is crap, work hours expected are unrealistic at best. Management could less care about employees, they are more worried about their next position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pick an actual direction that each NEC would be able to follow as opposed to dictating a solution with a shovel and you need a hose."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Pay. Job security. And because of my rank, I am in charge of my schedule."

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

"It is a good job with a lot of job security. But it is also very linear with little room for thinking outside the box. And beware of the people always looking to raise a fuss if you step outside your box."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Little or no freedom in the work schedule or the work product. Also, my work lacks meaning. It feels like I move paper as opposed to accomplishing anything real."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would try to make the office less rigid, more employee friendly. Give the employees more free reign to take their projects and run with them. Give them a chance to succeed."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"A sense of purpose and the federal benefits, and most importantly, the job security."

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

"Be careful in what division of the department you choose as well as the job field you select. Some are better than others as far as moving from pay grade to pay grade."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"There are to many Indian chiefs trying to control the Indians and it appears many of the chiefs actually lack any real experience on what they oversee."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Would be more innovative by taking on suggestions and recommendations that are sometimes outside the box and tend to gravitate towards being forward thinking."

"Instructor for foreign language in a short time."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"I love interaction with students and ways to convey ideas."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"There are always things that one does not like about its company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"We all need to work with this and it is a blessing if management is open,"

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Job security and federal pension, easy access to the Pentagon, parking at the Pentagon, food choices at the Pentagon, federal transit subsidy for the Metro (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ), and the ability to tele-work."

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

"Upward mobility is non-existent, there will be three more years of pay freezes, you will have to pay more into your retirement -which represents a 5% pay loss, there is an entrenched bureaucracy which is stubborn, is not open to new ideas. Lastly: Good Luck!"

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Maniacal boss, little chance for promotion, pay freezes, pay reductions, little ability to expand into different arenas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Actually talk to and engage my employees. Learn about their previous experiences and see what else they bring to the table. Offer tele-work as a daily option. Let employees ex-tern at other agencies and see if they would like to move on or bring back new ideas from other partners. Get an external look from private enterprises to see what we could do differently and more efficiently."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"The staff and the CEO, who is more like a mentor than a boss."

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

"To present themselves well, show interest in the work they will do and not the salary they get."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"There is not much I don't like about the company except they did not offer benefits."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide the employees with benefits and bonus to encourage their staff to perform and produce more."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Best job ever. DFAS Denver was closed. I did not wish to locate."

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

"There are no tips for interviewing for a government job, just be honest."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Government systems require each person has a very small part of the system for secure reasons."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management is ruled by security regulations, checks and re-checks are important."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Great work environment, could do my work at my own pace and take on different jobs if I wanted to."

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

"If you want a secure job and enjoy traveling, this is the job for you."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"Traveling quite a bit and the hoops you had to jump through to do certain things."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management was actually very good for the department I worked for."

What do you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"I enjoy the people, the equipment, salary and the time off."

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

"Conduct more training, stop pushing the self study CDs, train more, stop giving prior air force promotion opportunities, and job offers."

What don't you like about working at U.S. Department of Defense?

"No promotion potential, and no support from management. The only people that promote are prior military."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to floor firefighters, show your face at the stations. Know everyone's job."

"Although the commissary was an honest job, it was still stocking shelves during the night."