Ok, but not a place to spend an entire career. - Development Officer Canadian International Development Agency Employee Review

Benefits of working in public service: compensation, time off, health insurance, hours, etc. For those who can deal with the downsides, this is a prime job to enter early and kick back. There is very little focus on merit-based promotions or rewards, and simply showing up every day seems to be the key to ensuring your success.

Bureaucracy: Organizational change happening at a snail's pace, very little communication among management, incompetence at senior management levels, etc. Simply put, seeing the incompetence, inefficiency and waste is frustrating in any industry, but when dealing with international development, such problems translate into lives lost and lower standards of living. This is very hard to sit back and idly watch.

- Government stability, difficult to be fired - Some people are awesome

- Too much focus on pet projects than results - No respect for taxpayer's money - Inefficient processes