Environmental Protection Agency reviews

Everything else. This place is not for anyone wanting to make a difference. Any thoughts or ideas of innovation go no where. Managers are seriously aweful. They don't care about employees and want to get the credit from higher ups. It feels like high school with managers trying to one up one another. They make terrible decisions that waste tax payer dollars. This is what happens when people have been in power far to long. Way to many scientists and lawyers making top tier decisions. The disconnect and politics is deflating. Awful morale. All the good staff left or retired. It's the bottom feeders left.

It's a good place to start your career, but not a place to stick around in the long-term. Promotion process is not really transparent. Sometimes you see your peers get ahead even though they are less competent and less smart and do less work. It's a big organization, so there's a big bureaucracy. Sometimes you'll work on a document and it'll go through five levels of review, for five cycles before it publishes. Lots of IT issues. For some reason EPA's IT contractors are just the most incompetent people ever. Your work computer will take half hr to boot up. You'll be working with a $200 laptop that EPA bought from Dell back in 2004. Working from home or working remotely is a huge hassle. EPA's budget gets cut every single year by Congress--the quantity of work remains the same, but the number of staff doing it decreases every year.