This is the slowest process I’ve encountered in a really long time and I’ve worked in government for years. I can’t imagine how hard it is for them to get good employees when they take this long to get through the hiring process…and I work in government HR, so I have at least a general understanding of how most hiring processes should go. It’s just crazy that some of the reviews say it took 6 months to get hired on. My experience was 3 months and I finally declined to continue. I’m not sure if that worked 20 years ago but there’s absolutely no way you can competitively hire at this snails pace ALONG with the low wages government tends to pay. Don’t even get me started on that either - the benefits here aren’t even that great and certainly many private sector jobs are direct competition in the area of benefits these days. Its just all around ridiculous that it takes this long to hire - your pay is bad, your benefits mediocre, and your work life balance - non-existent. Also the amount of interviews you have to go through. It should not take this many rounds especially after making people wait months to hear from you. The whole process was just a giant red flag. Maybe the HR dept needs a massive overhaul.