King County reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(586 total reviews)
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Dow Constantine

69% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

King County has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 586 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The King County 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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586 reviews
1.0
Mar 5, 2018

Project Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, free orca card.

Cons

Management is hostile. No training for new hires. No documentation on standard work. Disorganized approach to just about everything. You have to be in an union and have union dues docked from your pay or you can't have the job.

1.0
Mar 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy commute. Air conditioned building.

Cons

There is a kind of apartheid at King County - between the full time workers with benefits and the part time masses cycled through jobs shamelessly. This process is enhanced by the dangling of potential full time jobs. My supervisor was a result of nepotism - he was unemployable otherwise and he received his job because his boss was his mother-in-law. This was a wildly known fact... hundreds of people were aware. I was criticized at one point for not responding to a text to MY PRIVATE phone.

4.0
Feb 27, 2018

In transition in some areas

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Strong ESJ Program in some departments in the Exec Branch Innovative approaches to the work - using continuous improvement Testing new technology

Cons

Very different experience in different branches of the government Small and poorly funded agencies frequently struggle with low morale and poor performance

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