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Anonymous
Actually most OIGs at other Departments are very highly ranked. Look at the list of agency subcomponents. Office of General Counsel is also highly ranked at most agencies. Anything in the top 100 is generally an excellent place to work. Our OIG at my agency is really good to work with and I know the employees are really happy. https://bestplacestowork.org/rankings/?view=overall&size=sub&category=leadership& 1. Office of Inspector General, Tennessee Valley Authority 16. Office of Inspector General , Department of Health and Human Services 40. Office of the Inspector General , Department of the Interior 54. Office of the Inspector General, United States Postal Service 62. Office of the Inspector General , Department of Justice 76. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Department of the Treasury 83. Office of the Inspector General, General Services Administration 83. Office of the Inspector General, Department of Transportation 87.Office of the Inspector General, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, Defense Agencies, and Department of Defense Field Activities |
Anonymous
I liaise with a lot of OIGs through CIGIE. Staff at HHS, DOT, Education and NASA always seemed to be happy. Actually, I thought USAID OIG staff were happy. The folks that represent them on CIGIE committees seem to be happy and really good leaders. A few years back their quality assurance guy had the whole QA community excited. My staff was excited to go to those workgroup meetings and always gave a lot of high praise for the USAID folks leading that committee. I worked with USAID OIG's Chief of Staff on a CIGIE committee. She is always eager and super helpful. Their nominee is also very involved an CIGIE and has a great reputation. I hope she can turn things around over there. I would have never guessed USAID OIG was in such a bad state. Out of curiosity, I looked up their AIG for management given the earlier post. I know of her! She was at Energy OIG not too long ago. The stories...I definitely feel bad for USAID OIG staff. That woman is a tornado. She wrecks everything around her. |
Anonymous
When I started at the Fed I was immediately working 14 hour days and weekends. My group was filled with dead wood and the managers would abuse the new hires. I did like the work I did though but hated having harsh deadlines because the people around me were either incompetent or just refused to do work. |
Anonymous
The long hours sound right, but the dead wood doesn't unless you were in a nonbusiness line funtion or a very specific section. |
Anonymous
Which are the two that get it? I have been interviewing at several and would like to know - I left the private sector for a reason. |
Anonymous
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USAID OIG was a very toxic workplace. When I worked there, a lot of the auditors were burnt out including myself. Extremely burdensome and long projects that takes years to complete sometimes because of politics and bureaucracy. Recommendations are usually not useful because of the length of project. Basically a whole division was turned over in a matter months. Lazy auditors with mediocre/poor performance or Senior leadership favorites are rewarded and recognized. Hard workers, critical thinkers, and opinionated employees were punished through evaluations or ignored. Best thing was the travel. It seems over the last few years they have hired a more diverse staff probably to look good and save face - bc it was really hard for people of color to move up. A lot of senior leadership don’t really lead or inspire the employees and their technical skills are worst. In my opinion, the previous IG was charismatic, well dressed, and had a good reputation. But she hired her buddies in senior positions and listened to the wrong people for advice. She stayed only 4 years I think. Somethings never change - if your on LinkedIn and research former USAID OIG senior leadership you’ll see that some have the same trajectory. DOT OIG then USAID OIG and now Deloitte.
The mandated audits keep the organization going honestly. Either way… stay away! |
Anonymous
I had former coworkers go to USAID OIG. They seemed happy. One passed away though. |
Anonymous
If bank finreg, FDIC and OCC. If consumer involved could be CFPB, not sure what hours expectations are there. |
Anonymous
The nominee's reputation is based on the old IG, her friend, pushing her to others. Nominee went from a GS-14 at DoT-OIG to an SES at USAID OIG in 3 years. All former IG's doing. IG let the nominee go straight to her on everything so that nominee didn't need to go to her boss- IG basically mandated nominee get outstanding ratings so that her way was paved for nomination. Nominee never managed more than a dozen people. She's competent, but ambitious to a fault and where she is not because of competence, but because of her working her relationship to the old IG. |
Anonymous
Wow i just declined an interview for the fed and was low key regretting it. Glad to hear i was right to trust my gut. |
Anonymous
USAID GC is terrible as well. |
Anonymous
+ 1 Long hours but not a lot of dead wood. |
Anonymous
Why are you all working illegal unpaid OT? Take your ADHD meds and get your work done in 9 hours like everyone else. |
Anonymous
| How about State OIG? |
Anonymous
Not first hand, but I’m in the community and lots of people were jumping ship when the IG was fired that one Friday under the prior admin. State now seems to be one of the OIGs where no one is surprised if you’re interviewing, so you don’t have to go to deep on the “And why are you looking to leave your current agency?” question. (DHS OIG has historically been another one. Everyone knows.) |