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- Clear sense of purpose
Great benefits, lot of good people to work with, high sense of accomplishment at work, healthy company culture.
Program Manager (Current Employee) - Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) HQ - March 27, 2021
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The most useful review selected by IndeedThe job provides opportunity for advancement, encourages teamwork, promotes high work culture with sense of accomplishment for organization mission. The corporate headquarters set good examples for employees to follow. Leadership cares for the well-being of the employee .
Pros
Rewards recognition, cash incentives
Cons
Too much relying on computer technology
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Good Pay with Benefits
Operations Manager (Former Employee) - Bremerton, WA - May 20, 2022
Well funded and recession-proof. Excellent healthcare with dental and 401K benefits. Each member has his/her own experience, but today's Navy is a wonderful place to work.
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Work isn't too difficult. Great work life balance.
Engineer (Current Employee) - Corona, CA - May 18, 2022
Pretty low stress. Difficult to advance. Very slow at times. Benefits are good, especially as you stay longer and the annual leave you get increases per pay period and you are able to carry over personal leave into the next year.
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Excellent benefits, flexibility, occasionally boring
Test Engineer (Former Employee) - Newport, RI 02841 - May 10, 2022
Benefits and work flexibility with respect to hours is incredibly flexible. I have never experienced anything like it before. Pension if you stay long enough, along with ~5% match for TSP (like a 401k or 403b). Downsides are mainly that you may get stuck with a role that is boring at times. I think the great support from management, the flexibility, and the compensation make up for that though.
Pros
Flexible hours, pay, retirement benefits
Cons
Contractors do most of the interesting work
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Good and so-so
Hospital Corpsman (Former Employee) - Willow Grove, PA - May 5, 2022
Good is steady paycheck, so-so is skills learn not transferable to private sector, I know how to do every job in a hospital but not qualified to do any
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Great
Emergency Management Coordinator (Former Employee) - Norfolk, VA - May 2, 2022
Have been very happy with my time in the navy and feel that the life lessons and experiences are extremely valuable. I think that the benefits are undervalued.
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Federal job security but trapped in the past.
Computer Scientist (Current Employee) - Dahlgren, VA - April 25, 2022
The benefits (health, life, retirement) are fantastic and job security is a lock (you literally cannot be fired for incompetence). But I write console applications in dead languages for dead operating systems. I have never written a web application and haven't come near a microservice framework or container. We do important work, but we are bogged down by old system architectures that force us to use compatible (old) technologies to do it. We were informed last year that we would be able to work from home up to 80% of the time. Then on 30 Jan, we were abruptly told to come back to the office in 29 days, and nobody was getting more than 40% telework, no matter the situation or how well we were able to do our jobs the previous two years. We have no say in the matter.
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Great coworkers, low work at times
Financial Analyst (Current Employee) - Washington, DC - April 21, 2022
Pretty good job. Sometimes dont have as much work to do as I’d like but okay for what it is. Pretty good job security and absolutely love the people i work with but not always that way at different locations.
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Good benefits
Security assistant (Former Employee) - Portsmith Virginia - April 18, 2022
It is what it is if the government. There is always opportunity for advancement maybe not necessarily in your department. The benefits are really good and there is a sense of job security.
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Great new beginning!
Steel Worker (Former Employee) - Virginia - April 12, 2022
Perfect for someone who doesn’t know what they want to do career wise! Great benefits for you and your family! Great if you like networking and meeting new people.
Pros
Benefit and advancement opportunities
Cons
Work load at time can be crazy!
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Administration/Training /Operations Manager (PS1/E-6) (Former Employee) - Pensacola, FL - April 12, 2022
I hate to sound like a commercial for the US Navy, but this was the best job I ever had in my life. At first, (back in 1985), my career started out slow. I felt like I was going nowhere. I got out for a while. My parents took ill, and I took care of them till they passed. I went back around 2001 and that's when my career took off, and I didn't look back. I enjoyed every minute of it. I served in the reserves most of my career. I got to see the world, (just as they promised), and I loved it. It was incredible. I just wish my parents could have seen some of the pictures I took. Japan was the best!
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Okay place to work.
Requirements Manager (Former Employee) - Arlington, VA - April 2, 2022
It's a good place to work. Managers give you a lot of independence and flexibility to do your job. The down side is that many of the programs are under resourced.
Pros
Flexible schedule, good managers
Cons
undermanned, underresourced
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Enjoyable and productive
Director, Contracts and Materials Management, NWACT (Former Employee) - Indianapolis, IN - March 19, 2022
I do not need 150 words to express my sentiments and appreciation for the 35 years of service in the U.S. Navy. My answers are not in the present but in the past as I retired in 1992. There were no typical days at work, each day had the potential of wide variations. I served both as a follower and as a leader depending on the tasking that I was assigned. The hardest part of my job was to anticipate and plan for assignments in a changing environment. The most enjoyable part was doing my best once the plan was signed and approved.
Pros
No free lunches but plenty of good enjoyable days served with personnel under my leadership.
Cons
Leaders that did not want to follow regulations.
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Looking for something else.
Finance (Current Employee) - Texas - March 13, 2022
Very unfulfilling unsaticfied work. There is a lot of accountability with no direction on how to do anything or what to do. The pay is much lower than the private sector.
Pros
Good benefits (time off)
Cons
If you have a supervisor position you are treated like you are always guilty of something, and you don't have the rights that you are forced to give others. NEVER AGAIN.
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Work with a purpose. Some federal employees take advantage of the job security.
Electronics Technician (Current Employee) - Port Hueneme, CA - March 8, 2022
Important work being done there. A minority of the people do a bulk of the work and they are a pleasure to work with. They are flexible with teleworking if the need arises. Meetings tend to be longer and than necessary and many times accomplish little.
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A privilege to work for Navy
Program Manager (Current Employee) - Pentagon, DC - March 8, 2022
Every time I do something for work, I know I am supporting our fleet and sailors. Great learning opportunities and advancement upward and laterally.
Pros
Great flex work time options
Cons
Management style can be rigid at times
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Good place to work if you can take the bureaucracy and bad IT.
Test Engineer (Current Employee) - Dahlgren, VA - March 6, 2022
Good place to work if you can take the bureaucracy and bad IT. Good pay, good advancement potential if you can stand the endless meetings. Pension and decent benefits. No dental, however. Most positions are not telework friendly over 8 hours per week.
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Always confident in your role and expectations
Management Analyst (Former Employee) - California - February 4, 2022
Hard to compare to normal jobs but lots of freedom to create your own goals. There was always work and opportunities to join other teams or projects. Everyone went beyond to ask about your home life and if you needed anything. The active duty were like family.
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psychologist (Current Employee) - San Diego, CA - February 3, 2022
Job is very stressful and very little support is provided on a regular basis. There needs to be more movement potential as well. Managers are inadequately trained.
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Not much work culture to speak of. There are better options.
There isn't much professional growth to speak of. Your job title is engineer, but that is in name only. You get decent benefits, but that is it. The culture is not good and you're left on your own for most of the week.
Pros
Benefits, time off, and that's really it.
Cons
You will not use your engineering degree here. Not beneficial from a growth standpoint.
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I have worked for the Air Force and I prefer working for the Navy. Also the Navy is good about giving time off before holidays.
Program Manager/Project Manager (Current Employee) - Pensacola Naval Air Station, FL - January 24, 2022
I have worked for the Air Force and I prefer working for the Navy. The Navy is good about giving you time off the day before a holiday. And I have never has my leave denied.
Pros
Don’t micromanage and love the paid time off before holidays.
Cons
No cons
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