TxDOT Reviews

Former Employee – worked at TxDOT

Pros – Benefits, hours,location, employees,holidays, vacation, sick leave

Cons – political, buddy system, no team work,

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Always something new to learn...there is no bottom of this pool and the edges are far away. You'll need a buddy system just to tread water in these rough waters.

Cons – Moving into the 21st Century...eventually. A little late for me, but they're finally making progress, now that an armada of auditor's and study after study, it's becoming clear where their real problems lie.

Advice to Senior Management – Those 600+ recommendations from Grant Thorton was pretty clear. Please keep the focus. Many are counting on you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TxDOT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Lots of time off potential, especially since they don't pay overtime, and instead earn comp time. If you get fired then you did something completely stupid and unethical because nobody loses their job. Close knit working environment and friendly people. Great place to get career experience to move on elsewhere. Even though the pay is bad, the benefits are pretty good.

Cons – The pay. If you are not a CIVIL engineer it's pretty much a dead end place to work. Even for non-engineering positions TxDOT tends to hire engineers for. Upper administration makes decent money but regular employees don't. Management doesn't allow much decision making from regular employees and discourages it. The only potential to become a manager is if someone dies or retires. You are an enemy of the public and the media.

Advice to Senior Management – Give employees some decision making ability which encourages ingenuity. Something needs to be done about the pay because those benefits that you use to retain people are getting more and more expensive but the pay isn't going up to help.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at TxDOT full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – if you are in the right position you can spend a lot of time with your family

Cons – If you are not management or a engineer you do not make any money

Advice to Senior Management – pay us more

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TxDOT

Pros – Not too much fear of layoffs

Cons – Work can get redundant and can be 8 hours of working on the same thing everyday