U.S. Department of State Employer Reviews

Work environment has highly educated and skilled employees which have a global view and are most often adaptable to any environment.

Great working environment and met a lot of great people. Management does a great job. I would say the hardest part of the job is standing for long periods at a time. The most enjoyable part of the job is meeting different people on a daily basis.

My typical day at work was to serve in a support capacity for various ongoing projects. It was fulfilling and exposed me to topics that I would have never considered otherwise. The job truly broadened my horizons and gave me a lot to consider moving forward. Management, like any government position, varies from place to place but my supervisors were – more... very personal and took an interest in my development. My co-workers were also great and I enjoyed working with every one of them. I think the hardest part the job, at the end, was trying to figure out where to go from afterwards. – less

I learned so much from working here. I was always busy and I loved that. I always loved giving to work.

The U.S. State Department is an exciting place to work. I worked in the Human Resources department in the Performance Evaluation department with lovely, enthusiastic co-workers who made coming in to work every day enjoyable.

Very Peaceful but face paced work environment and have the best employees that work in groups to complete projects.

Web and graphic designer for Foreign Service Institute courses catered to diplomatic posts. Creation of (UIs) to internal teams and
external clients.
• Development of wireframing, maintain consistent brand including best usability practices to
design content graphics, and interactive scenarios.
• Managed graphics library, photo-shoots on-site and off, – more... organize all project related assets. – less

Very different, learning experience, challenging living in different cultures, friendly. Opportunity to travel to other countries nearby. Embassies provided housing and most locations included furnishings. Provisions available to learn language.

I enjoy a fast pace at work and keep myself busy. Work well with co-workers and as a team.

I enjoy getting to work and jumping right in getting the morning staff reports done. Once those are completed I go through emails and see my tasks for the day, answer questions sent to me by customers and read through telegrams. Once my trainer arrives we start into what ever new task i will be preforming next. My day flies by. I enjoy being busy at – more... work and if i have an idle minute i find some way of being productive. – less

Excellent opportunity to provide armed and un-armed combat support it countries such as: Colombia, Iraq, Afghanistan

Great staff. Warm and friendly work environment. Learned a lot of information on passport fraud.

Working at the Department of State has awarded me the opportunity to become a a team player. In my department we worked as a team, it was a wonderful work environment. Management was also very understanding.

• Rewrote the Embassy’s Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) for a terrorist attack or natural disaster
• Designated location and inventoried the Alternate Command Center in preparation for a terrorist attack or catastrophic natural disaster
• Reorganized and coordinated the Embassy Motorpool Program in Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan

It was a great place to work where I interacted with dedicated professionals committed to advancing U.S. national interests overseas.

The work environment provides staff members with daily opportunities to be productive and objectively select among numerous advancement, self-empowerment, and development possibilities. Excellent employment benefit packages.

Lot's of travel, great people, what more can you ask for.

Wish I could have extended my contract.

Awesome place to work. As a contractor, decent place to work - very beauraucratic

The Department of State is a wonderful place to work. DOS has been a great place to develop my skills in security as well as fine tune skills. I have had to hone my skills of communication and attention to detail to effectively complete my job duties while employed at the Department of State.

Worked with a wide assortment of professional law enforcement subject matter experts from a multitude of countries from around the world. Terrific experience working in a high stress environment, often dangerous conditions. Very rewarding to see the progress made over the years (six in Iraq - five with Dyncorp and one with DOS).