Defense Finance and Accounting Service Employee Reviews about "dfas"

Pros

DFAS serves the men and woman of our military.

Cons

Senior managers get too focused on production at the sacrifice of customer service and employee work/life balance.

Pros

All the typical government benefits (leave, insurance, retirement, etc.)

Cons

Hard work is only recognized with one thing: more work. There is no attempt by upper management to reward those who go above and beyond. Trying to get into the LIM program is very competitive, and to make matters worse, interns are given priority over existing, experienced employees. I've notice that many employees leave to go to other agencies, but very few come to DFAS from other agencies.

Pros

Rewarding working with soldiers on a day to day.

Cons

Position are underpaid at all levels, DFAS really needs some serious desk audits. no real finance experience, no training will be provided so hope you have experience. Often over worked with no rewards. Only employees who receive training for career progression are the supervisors.

Pros

Knowing what I do is important

Cons

I used to LOVE working at DFAS Limestone and the last 5-6 years especially the last 3 years have been the worst ever. Upper management doesn't care about you or your family, they punish everyone in the building for 10 people taking advantage of their privileges, and on overtime they will make you sit there and do nothing if you have no work! Upper management loves to micromanage! It's to bad because I love what I do. There are lots of people at DFAS Limestone that work very hard, go over and beyond and care about what we do. However, upper management is making it VERY hard for us to like our jobs especially when they punish the people that are doing what we are supposed to do! Pretty soon we will all need deviations to go to the bathroom! It's ridiculous! If you want a life, respect and not to be treated like garbage that can be thrown away don't apply to DFAS Limestone....you'll regret it.

Pros

This is a government position so it comes with decent benefits, including more leave than most civilian employers.

Cons

DFAS Limestone suffers from an obsession with production numbers. Nothing else matters. We recently received notice that we will be working mandatory overtime 2 Saturdays per month during the months of June, July, and Aug. After that we go into fiscal year end mode when we work mandatory overtime daily for two months. There is no work/life balance in this organization. It is easy to get a foot into the door of federal service here because there is always churn.

Pros

- Great pay, benefits and employee perks (ie. Telework, flexibility with scheduling, family oriented, overtime is given when asked for. ) -Professional & friendly work environment. -Free use of base gym & sauna -Works well with military reservist

Cons

I do not have any cons for working at DFAS.

Pros

Great benefits, lots of time off, telework available, and flexible scheduling. Ive been with DFAS for almost 10 yrs and enjoy coming into work everyday.

Cons

Hard to get promoted here. Management tends to lean more towards people with a degree no matter what the degree is in. If you don't have a degree you can get passed by for someone who has it in underwater basket weaving. They just want the paper, they don't care what it's in. Also it's hard to get rid of bad employees so instead mgmt just ignores them