Caltrans reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(852 total reviews)

Malcolm Dougherty

67% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Caltrans has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 852 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Caltrans employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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852 reviews
3.0
Oct 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The State offers Excellent health benefits, and retirement if you are willing to serve your time. Plenty of opportunity to grow in career, challenging projects, and ability to work independently.

Cons

The management generally lacks the ability to communicate, reach critical deadlines and stay within budget. There is a huge amount of waist and self entitlement. Lots of wasted resources

5.0
Oct 25, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent pay, lots of overtime, good retirement, low stress, good coworkers, 630 to 300 schedule, weekends off

Cons

Payroll Department seems unorganized, trouble getting paid correctly as a new employee, no double time after 12 hours due to bargaining agreement

1.0
Oct 24, 2017

Worst job I ever had.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only pros I can think of, is there are good benefits but is not worth the unsafe work environment.

Cons

A lot of discrimination, sexual harassment, and severe retaliation for coming forward making Caltrans a very unsafe work environment.

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