Public Agency - Project Manager Sound Transit Employee Review

3.0
Dec 10, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and interesting projects.

Cons

Very political environment which makes sense since the Board is comprised of local elected officials. This makes decision making a layered and time consuming process in and of itself.

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Sound Transit Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review - we really appreciate your feedback. And thanks for the point about the decision making process here at Sound Transit - there are a lot of choices to be made as we expand our regional transit system to serve more people in more places. You're right - our projects are interesting to say the least! https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion

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