DOJ Criminal Division - Work Environment

[Anonymous]

NP here. Anyone know how easy it it is to relocate within the Criminal Division? If there is an office in another city and you need to move for family reasons, is that generally doable? Or do you have to wait for a position to open up or until you're "permanent"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. Anyone know how easy it it is to relocate within the Criminal Division? If there is an office in another city and you need to move for family reasons, is that generally doable? Or do you have to wait for a position to open up or until you're "permanent"?

The Criminal Division really doesn't have offices in other places. It's not like, say, Antitrust that has regional offices elsewhere in the country. The best you can do is try to get a job in a local U.S. Attorney's Office, but they are not part of the Criminal Division, so you can't just ask to transfer. You would have to wait for a vacancy in the relevant USAO to be posted and apply like everyone else. Now, your Criminal Division experience may make you more competitive for that slot (depending on what you were doing and the slot being hired for) but getting it is by no means guaranteed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am considering a position and curious what is the work environment like - do the attorney's have offices or cubicles? What is the admin support like (if any?) What IT support - do you get a good laptop and cell phone? Is there an internal lunch room or places to eat? What about parking?

I know this all sounds petty, but I feel comfortable asking in interviews about the job itself and all the important substantive things I'm curious about, but sometimes it's the smaller things that you can be the most curious about and only find out once you get there. Thought I'd get the inside scoop while I'm waiting to hear on my application! (BTW am currently working in an office with an open plan for everone from CEO to sales guys - it's a real downer, so maybe knowing about the DOJ offices isn't such a trivila question after all ...)

Are you an attorney?

Because "do the attorney's have offices...." shouldn't have an apostrophe in it and I'd nix you if I saw that in a writing sample (I was a supervisory attorney for 20+ yrs).

I agree that open plan sucks. Just plain sucks.

[Anonymous]

hard to believe you wasted time on that post just to be nasty - hope it made you feel superior somehow. Big difference between proofing for work and writing for a chat site (I would certainly never hire someone who uses the word sucks). Also, you are not a great proofreader or you would have caught several other typos in the post. In fact, the writing style in the post itself is not that admirable or well structured

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hard to believe you wasted time on that post just to be nasty - hope it made you feel superior somehow. Big difference between proofing for work and writing for a chat site (I would certainly never hire someone who uses the word sucks). Also, you are not a great proofreader or you would have caught several other typos in the post. In fact, the writing style in the post itself is not that admirable or well structured

This. The grammar police need to understand their forum. This ain't it.