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3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

(2,782 total reviews)

Carolyn W. Colvin

34% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Social Security Administration has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,782 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Social Security Administration 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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3K reviews
1.0
Sep 14, 2019
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Pros

-Health benefits -Good training provided on a National level (away from the office)

Cons

-My writing was always open to attack on purely subjective and arbitrary grounds. I also received different and incompatible advice from mentors/ management who reviewed the exact same writing. -No variety -Work in isolation - Unreasonable time demands. As an attorney advisor, I was provided instructions from judges that were often full of mistakes and I was responsible for fixing the judge's mistake. I then had to get permission to fix the mistake (and hope that I did not offend a judge by asking to make a change), review hundreds of pages of medical and other records and finally write a "legally sufficient" and perfect document within one day. -Terrible Management. The worst I have ever experienced during my 35 year work history.

2.0
Jan 16, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great work/life balance, variety of health plans (though nothing special compared to large corporations), job security, room for growth, some very nice people

Cons

Nepotism and favoritism are RAMPANT, top-heavy with management, very difficult to move around/try new things, work is not rewarding or challenging, terrible morale, many very weird people

1.0
Sep 17, 2018
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Pros

opportunity to help the public.

Cons

When I started this job, I was told that we would get a raise in a year, then 8 months into my job we were made to sign a document stating that management had the right to withhold our raises. In the document their were no standards or criteria on what you needed to do to obtain your raise. It was all based on your manager. If you address concerns about the training process, you will place a target on your back by management. Management, and mentors will make your work environment so uncomfortable so that several of my coworkers have quit. If you do decide to stick out, management will manipulate your monthly reports so that it looks like you are not producing, so that they can terminate you. Even though others will be producing at the same rate, and will keep their jobs. Management will pick and choose who they want to get off of review. If you are one of the lucky ones, management will manipulate your daily time so that your cases per day are higher than others, this is done by management having daily "non scheduled" meetings with the employees that they like, so that they can exclude that time from their daily case count. The training management takes no responsibility for the content of the training material, the way it is presented, or the standards on which you are tested. If you address concerns management will blame you for the issues. So if you do not have a photographic memory then you are out of luck on actually learning how to do your job. Their training process is that you learn through getting cases wrong, then depending on your mentor, you might get the correct answer. If you value your mental state and your heath, RUN from this job.

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