4.0
Aug 18, 2025
Great mission & workforce but work-life balance can be poor
Former employee, more than 5 years
Washington, DC
Recommend
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Pros
FEMA has a great mission and workforce. There is also alot of variety in the roles and tasks you have access due to Incident Support/Management role requirements. SES leadership has historically been very good but has suffered significantly under the latest administration.
Cons
Leadership is enforcing more stirngent requirements for deploying for disasters, which could require 30+ day field deployments. This can be avoided by taking an Incident Support role and deploying to the National Response Coordination Center, but even still that can require 2+ weeks of working 7days/week, 12hr/day.
