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Hennepin County Library Reviews

3.5

68% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)

49% positive business outlook

Hennepin County Library has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hennepin County Library employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government and public administration industry (3.6 stars).

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43 reviews
3.0
25 May 2021

Nice

Recommend
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Pros

Good to work , google work life balance, good career growth opportunity

Cons

No cons, nice to work

2.0
19 Feb 2017

Horrible management

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits were good. Some awesome coworkers, minus the one who was stalking me. I really loved helping my patrons. Lots of variety and challenge!

Cons

The management was the worst I have ever worked for. Arrogant, completely out of touch with their employees, trying to fix problems by restructuring the entire organization repeatedly, pandering to county commissioners rather than caring about their patrons and staff. There was also a strong anti-Minneapolis sentiment among upper management I found repugnant. Upper management are a bunch of white white women from the 'burbs. They loved to talk about the importance of diversity but balked at going to meeting in the scary, dirty city. I loved the diversity of the city branches and their elitist attitudes drove me crazy.

2.0
16 Jan 2017

innovators not wanted

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

county has some great benefits and working in libraries in general is a good feeling. most people outside of management are fantastic and fun to work with

Cons

management is terrible, worst group of managers I have ever experienced. I had never been made to feel so worthless and unwanted as I did there. horrible people and not worth your passion and drive, they will crush you. I was told not to try collaborating with others and had a huge project tossed away after three years of work, with no path forward and no explanation. save yourself the hassle, find a more visionary library system.

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