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Scottish Government Reviews

4.1

91% would recommend to a friend

(378 total reviews)
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Nicola Sturgeon

77% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Scottish Government has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 378 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Scottish Government employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government and public administration industry (3.6 stars).

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378 reviews
5.0
22 May 2024

When the haggis come at us

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great times and good pints with good friends

Cons

Sometimes too many pints and I don't like these people

4.0
30 Jan 2023

Great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice people Interesting work Good pension

Cons

It’s very slow to make anything improve

2.0
18 Aug 2021

Boring - hardly anything to do

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice people, very welcoming, lots of support, huge salary for not a lot of work in return, stupidly good benefits (pension, sick pay etc), you'll never get fired

Cons

Barely any work to do. The pace of work is so slow and the majority of my coworkers worked like they were in slow motion. I could finish most of my tasks (which were boring and trivial 99% of the time) for the day in a few hours, and asking for more work only ever amounted to the odd 5 mins extra job. Listen, if you wanna coast by your life putting in the bare minimum of effort and still get a decent salary and ridiculous benefits, government might be for you but if you like working hard, problem solving, difficult and complex tasks etc I'd steer well away. For context, I left for a lower paid job that had interesting and difficult work because Scot Govt bored me to the point of insanity. Was actually told my someone senior to "get out of that private-sector mentality that you need to be busy all the time"

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