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3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,072 total reviews)

John H. Thompson

68% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

US Census Bureau has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,072 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The US Census Bureau 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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Feb 24, 2025
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Pros

Quitting never felt so sweet

Cons

Extreme favoritism and micromanagement. Favored employees got out of doing things everyone else had to do, simply because they were sucking up to management. You’ll be doing a number of things outside your job duties like doing reception desk duty because they’re too cheap to hire a replacement receptionist. You’ll even be working as a maid and cleaning out break room refrigerators which has nothing to do with the mission of the Census. You’re expected to document every single call with detailed information, which is impossible with a high volume of calls coming through. You’re also expected to document every thing you did at the end of the day with a count of how many times you did it in a daily report. They put the clerks at risk for COVID and defied a statewide shutdown by asking them to come in office while middle managers got to work from home. Dumb rules existed around how many monitors employees could have based on rank. Clerks got 1 monitor, middle managers got 2. Everyone who got promoted was white.

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