Department of Defense Employer Reviews

Even though it was just an internship, I loved everything I experienced from the culture of the office to the work load and the compensation

Not equal in postion.
Work with military.
Feq. managment changes.
Working with people in the most enjoyable.
My co workers are military and non military.

Management was not always professional. Issues became personal instead of professional. Lack of accord for actions

Unfortunately my time at the department of defense was not very good. As a high school work study I only worked four hours per day and sometimes spent all four of those hours sitting at my desk with nothing to do. The pay, benefits and advancement opportunities were great but the lack of work to be done was really discouraging to me. I like to earn – more... my money, not to have it given to my by the taxpayers for not doing any work. This job was very boring and really made me feel unimportant. I did gain beneficial experience with organization and filing but that was about all. – less

DISA provides high end telecom platforms for operations for the warfighter they are an essential piece of the DoD collective.

Great hands on WAN/LAN and ASA configuration experience on a Enterprise network.

More demands put on staff with less hours
Mandatory furloughs and over time cancelled

The best experiences and job I have ever had and look forward to returning!!!

This company has been great to me, they strive to look for work for their current contractors and fight for your tasks for job security.

It is an honor to serve my country. Excellent experience. You have the ability to learn a great trade and meet excellent people.

Teacher's dream job. Respectful students, supportive parents. No out of pocket expenditures, supplies readily available.

Calm, Supportive towards Veterans. Great people to be around!

The navy is a smart choice for anyone. I would recommend it to anyone wanting a solid experience.

A typical day at work would be arming up, morning briefs, vehicle inspection, and posting out. conducting radio checks with the dispatcher. Responding to incidents from alarm activation to medical emergencies or vehicle aaccidents. Conducting Vault checks,

Fast paced environment that continually changes. Opportunity for learning and development. Who you know seems to be more valuable than what you know.

A normal day of work would consist of organizing paperwork and managing employees on different tasks we had to accomplish for that day. My co workers were self motivated and it was easy to work with them. I really like all of the responsibility I had.

My government experience was both gratifying and frustrating. I enjoyed the people I worked with and most try to do a good job. Dealing with upper level management was the hardest aspect, due to their inexperience in grocery store operations. In the private sector, managers rise through the ranks, so they are very knowlegeable about the departments – more... they are overseeing. In the government sector, management is determined by GS rating - so most managers are appointed to departments they've got no experience in themselves, which makes it very difficult to be productive, and efficient. There are also many EEO issues that still plague the civil service that need to be addressed. – less

DoD employment was challenging and educational. There are benefits to constantly being involved in multiple projects and high priority items. The pace at which these events occur is impossible to keep up with individually and VERY stressful. Unsuccessful completion of tasks are viewed extremely negatively and has effected the culture of management within. – more... Being successful in this environment is really about having the right personality and attitude, not the right skills. Also, depending on where you begin your career the structure of support or lack thereof can impact the growth of it. Still, success is up to the individual to decide how much time and effort they want to put in to succeed - personality and the right attitude go a long way. – less

Interacting with customers, co workers are like family. I learned alot about the Postal system.

A typical day at work consists of waking up at 4am, formation at 6am, physical training, work call by 9am, we would conduct preventative maintenance, update aircraft log books, tow and park aircraft, communicate status reports and updates to subordinates, and leadership and superiors, conduct phase maintenance, remain on standby for down aircraft recovery, – more... when we have nothing to do we conduct training on various topics of interest to job and saftey. – less