HHS reviews

Changes were constantly made without any discussion with lower level employees from upper management. They hire and promote anyone based on filling positions and not exactly hiring people who were qualified for those positions. The workplace is very political and upper management seemed to always play both sides. Had to be careful on expressing your own opinions because it could come back to you if they did not like what you said. Bosses found ways to remove people and place blame on others and not themselves. Finally, job duties are not evenly distributed among employees especially between director and assistant director. I found that the Director spent most days doing almost nothing at all and passing his duties to others.

The experience is what you make it. If you go in and work hard, put in the hours, develop your team to run efficiently and effectively you will reap the rewards down the road. The major downside for me was lack of direction in career. I am an executive focused professional and saw no real opportunity to be an executive with the organization due to my lack of connections internally. In no way is this a dig at the company, but it is what it is.