FinCEN Reviews

The environment is toxic with high turn-over and poor management. Government employees are either completely passive or hostile to the contractors. Some of the government leaders are argumentative, unfriendly and impossible to work with. Others are timid and quiet with the goal of avoiding conflict and staying out of the way. And there is plenty of conflict. If the government is not firing contractors, they are harassing them to the point that they quit.

This was most interesting place that I had worked at. If Glassdoor offers the "like" function, then I would click on "like" for each review that had been posted. To me, FinCEN had been frozen in time, the IT department was operating more like my first project (1995) than my recent projects. Then I found out, most of the clients had been working there 10-20 years, so they become a very enclosed community and run things in their own way. Nobody wants to change or step out of their comfort zone, so obey and follow the commands. Schedule was everything even with additional scope added. Of course, patience and thick skin were required to work here; expect that your intelligence will be questioned, your ability will be challenged and your ego will be destroyed.