Great people, lacks any enlightened leadership - Anonymous employee King County Employee Review

1.0
Mar 10, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The compensation is generally very good. Many of the staff work a four-day work week, giving them a three day weekend. Fair degree of automomy given to employees to get their jobs done. Deployed great field technology -- and then totally dropped the ball.

Cons

Department lacks inspired leadership, modern management. More prone to generate fear in the workplace instead of inspire workforce.

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Pros

Great work life balance Off-site team building yearly if not more Health insurance is top Tier Pay rise yearly

Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Came to Rail from another division in the county, so much better than certain customer facing divisions. Work like balance and hybrid model are great. Lots of room for advancement in the admin world if you want it.

Cons

Can feel like you’re being micro managed or watched from the top at times but middle management is usually good at mitigating this.

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