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Solano County, California Reviews

3.3

45% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)
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Birgitta E Corsello

36% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Solano County, California has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Solano County, California 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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112 reviews
2.0
1 Sept 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Learned a lot by being given a huge amount of responsibility

Cons

There is a corporate culture of "who is to blame" born out of fear of being slammed for any mistakes. Also, in our department, we worked incredibly hard, putting in long hours with virtually no recognition of our efforts.

2.0
8 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, good salary, nice co-workers

Cons

Poor management, low moral, lack of guidance

2.0
7 Dec 2018

A House of Cards

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Wonderful colleagues; slightly higher pay compared to surrounding counties

Cons

Seem to be stuck in continually doing things "they way they've always been done" with most managers being baby boomers who have worked here decades and many new employees who are millennials and GenX-ers. These groups have very different view points of how things can be executed, and many upper managers don't feel comfortable allowing the younger generation creative freedom to try new ways of getting work done. Diiferent bureaus are different within solano county, so the area in which you work makes a huge difference in your experience here. As you would guess, we are often understaffed and 1 employee often does the work of 2 or 3. It is a mundane, outdated, cubicle landscape of gray walls and intermingled conversations (cubicles aren't walls). If you want a job where once you pass probation, you can sit pretty and basically never get fired, this place is for you. But if you want a place where you want your creativity to develop and have autonomy over the work you do, ehhhh...prolly not. Also, not a lot of promotion potential; if you want to advance, you have to apply to the position you want, just like you were an outside applicant; you can only move laterally within the org within your same position to a different bureau.

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