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U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(523 total reviews)

Rodney S. Scott

78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 523 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection 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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523 reviews
4.0
May 5, 2015

An excellent paying Job

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Awesome Pay, great benefits, great healthcare and paid holiday and sick leave, fun outdoors work that is very exciting

Cons

Always changing shift work makes it hard to balance work and life plus the president does not support the mission as much as they should.

1.0
Apr 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Receiving a stable paycheck and good benefits that you can get with any federal job.

Cons

- From first-line supervisors to SES personnel, CBP has some of the most incompetent managers I have ever seen. Not only do many of them lack the technical skills to do the job, but they have no idea how to LEAD people. - The morale is dead and is not going to improve unless most of management is replaced with people who actually know how to motivate, inspire, and engage their employees. This will never happen since there is so much nepotism and favoritism within the agency. - Management constantly provides negative feedback and they refuse to believe that happy employees are productive employees. - The turnover rate is very high; it's a revolving door and you are just a number. - CBP/DHS is consistently ranked as the worst place to work in the Federal Government (according to OPM's annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey). I can tell you through personal experience that this is accurate. Note: If CBP/DHS is your first federal job, I suggest you get your career status and/or max out your promotion potential in your position... then start looking for a new job in a better agency (you can only go up).

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