FAA reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,455 total reviews)

Pete Buttigieg | Michael G. Whitaker | Kathryn “Katie” Thomson

68% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

FAA has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,455 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FAA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Gobierno y administración pública industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Jan 4, 2015

ATC

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very rewarding career with a tremendous amount of responsibility. Work with minimal supervision - unless you make a mistake! Then everyone is your boss:-)

Cons

Incompetent management that is totally isolated from the mission of the FAA. Work weird hours and all holidays - but that comes with the territory:-)

3.0
Dec 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great union/federal pay and protections. Fun and important work.

Cons

You're a cog in a wheel. Hope you like working in a soap opera drama / locker room full of perverts and joksters and ego jocks / one uppers. Not everyone is this way but at least half the folks your stuck sitting next to until it's your turn on the break list are. The schedule is the absolute pits. The rattler as it is called is five shifts backwards rotating self compressing shifts. For example. Say your days off are mon/tue(everything is bid by seniority. You won't see weekends most likely for ~15yrs on average) you work two or three swings, one or two days followed by a mid the same day as your last day shift. So you go into work on Wednesday afternoon. And your last shift ends Sunday morning at 5am. Granted this is Only at the 24/7 facilities but it wears you out quick. And the invisible monkey on your shoulders whether your ego admits it or not is the ten thousand pound subconscious weight of responsibility you have to keep planes from smacking together. The work is fun but the constant screwing around with each other like in the movie pushing tin is the reality. Hope you can go to the bathroom on a schedule. The breaks are good but your tied to a position until it's your turn on the break list. And you'll be made to feel Week and bothersome if you ask for relief to just use the bathroom. Just like in grade school when the teacher shamed you for needing to go to the bathroom.

4.0
Dec 17, 2014

great

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good pay and benefits for work

Cons

shift work made it difficult sometimes

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