City of North Vancouver Employee Reviews

Not a ton of growth opportunities. Hard to excel as an intellectual employee, but a great place to work for labour jobs, administration, etc. Great salary, benefits, time-off and pension.

Pros

Good people, benefits, work-life-balance

Cons

No advancement, management myopic

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Good sightseeing

Labourer (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 2 September 2023

Great sight seeing around the city. Intestinal work. Clique work force lots of nepotism. Don't value you and keep you temporary all the time. Bad for moral

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Insights into City of North Vancouver

Based on 9 survey responses

What people like

Supportive environment
Feeling of personal appreciation
Time and location flexibility

Areas for improvement

Overall satisfaction
Trust in colleagues
Sense of belonging

A Draconian Workplace

Human Resources Specialist (Current Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 1 August 2023

The City of North Vancouver has a draconian managerial approach. Employees cannot talk about their problems without the risk of damaging their career or becoming alienated from the company. It has been breed to become a culture of cruelty. The risk to an individual’s personal wellbeing in this toxic workplace environment stifles open conversation. The directors and managers continue to dismiss those employees struggling in a toxic work environment which strengthens the stigma that exists there. Poor attitudes, bad language and discrimination from both directors and managers to their employees coupled with a workplace where skills and talents are not valued, the uncompetitive wages/benefits packages that doesn’t even remotely match the cost of living on the North Shore, an environment that is hostile, uncaring and uninspiring, and a place where you cannot grow in your career.

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Great opportunities to be be involved and make a real impact in my community too

Manager (Current Employee) - City hall - 1 July 2023

Great culture. Opportunities to learn, grow and get involved in projects and other opportunities outside your normal area of work. Approachable management and inclusive place of work. Really amazing and supportive colleagues. Best place I have worked in my lifetime and thankful to have found such a grest employer

Pros

Great culture and people

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terrible unsupportive employer

Administration (Former Employee) - city - 26 April 2022

i enjoyed the nature of the work but this a terrible employer. The culture there was back stabbing and underhanded. There was a constant turn over in management. I found people there were generally unhappy with the employer but afraid to speak out for change due to fear of consequences. The union reps were unprofessional & could be heard triangulating and speaking about private matters to others in shared work spaces. I worked for there for well over ten years and when I left I never looked back.

Pros

none

Cons

no parking, unhappy coworkers

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Good group of people

Communications Operator (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 14 April 2022

Hard job answering 911 calls as it can be very busy and challenging. Rewarding work when you can actually make a difference and hear follow up from the police members that attend the scene (if it is information they can share).

Pros

Good location in walking distance to lots of shops for lunch, coffee. Decent group of co workers.

Cons

Long hours, stressful

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Good wage and benefits

Gardener - Parks Department (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 7 February 2022

Want part time work and not offered. Liked the driving aspect of the job and working independently. Vacation and sick time was good but after 27 years employed needed to go to pet time but isn’t offered at this workplace.

Cons

No part time work

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Bad place to work

Streets department (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 11 September 2020

You go in thinking it's going to be a great job but that changes really fast. From management all the way down to half the workers in Streets Dept. were corrupt in one form or another. If someone in their little pack doesn't like you some of them try to bully you so you'll quit. .

Pros

Hours and Pay

Cons

Bullies and lazy co-workers

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Wonderful workplace environment

Administrator (Current Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 28 April 2020

CNV is a great work place. The people are nice and most management is very supportive. My only challenge is that information about business processes is not always easy to come by - no one is holding back deliberately - but it is really on the new person to figure out there own way. On-boarding into roles is lacking. Maybe that is good - it forces you to go and ask around. You meet people in all the departments.

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Great overall sense of Community

Instructor Guard (Current Employee) - Lynn Valley, BC - 17 April 2020

Great overall sense of community from the guests and all the different departments within a facility. So many job offers within each facility and activities for all ages/abilities.

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Maintenance Worker - Utilities

Bylaw Enforcement Officer 1

North Vancouver, BC

3 days ago

Fun and stressfree workplace

Swimming Instructor and Lifeguard (Current Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 29 March 2020

Good work culture and a stress free environment. Great management and support resources. Fair pay for the work done. I never brought home any work stress from this job.

Cons

Typically short shifts so can be tough to get enough hours

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wasnt overall a good experience

Temp labourer position/Utilities department (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 15 March 2020

It was a terrible place to work period. poor management, to much entitlement and a lot of lazy guys. Temps did all the work and took all took all the problems. . Not what u know it is who u know there. good benefits and job safety but low pay for only hrs a day.

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Great place to work

Section Manager Operations and Maintenance (Current Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 6 March 2020

Great atmosphere and opportunity to grow. I would would recommend working here to anyone. Great setting in North Vancouver and friendly office environment.

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Recreation Programmer 1

Recreation Programmer (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 26 February 2020

Commute to work was terrible. Were not flexible with hours that would have worked given traffic conditions (even though same work could have been completed). Tough to get a handle on things with movement to different centres and reporting to different staff. Senior staff members were comfortable in their roles and were not receptive to new ideas from newer, younger staff so it made transition much more difficult. Certain staff members went out of their way to pick apart wrongdoings and report to management to make a hostile and unfriendly environment.

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Constant turn over, lackluster team

IT Manager (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 29 September 2019

If you enjoy working in at a place with constant management turn over and a lackluster and an unmotivated IT team, this is the place for you. No strategic direction, stale IT technology, typical unionized government atmosphere. My advice, stay away!

Pros

Good work life balance

Cons

Leadership more concerned about feelings than performance, unmotivated team, frequent turnover of management

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Intern

Experienced Quality Assurance Analyst (Former Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 27 September 2019

Had nice time here, the company culture was good and work-life balanced. Did not learn too much stuff here, the working environment was cozy. A good place to work

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Good workplace, competitive wages and great team members

Social Media Consultant (Contract) (Current Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 24 September 2019

Great organization with positive team members and lots of room for development. Many different departments and facilities to work in and all of the staff that I have met has been very friendly.

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Une experience enrichissante pour en apprendre plus sur la culture canadienne, leur mode de vie et une chance d'ameliorer mon anglais.

Au Pair (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 20 September 2019

Journée typique : - Aide aux repas - Aide à l'habillage - Amener les enfants à l'Ecole - Les aider dans l'apprentissage d'une bonne hygiène de vie - Participer aux tâches ménagères

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Awful workplace

Labourer on multiple divisions (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 10 July 2019

Absolutely hands down the worst organization I have ever worked for. I worked on the streets division. The supervisor is an negative, insecure old man who is abusing the system by organising overtime to benefit him and the brown noser of the crew. They bully employees they hate to try and force them out. Good workers get punished and the lazy and system abusing employees seem to get whatever they want. Use alot of city tools for personal jobs on weekends and also charge certain materials to work jobs even though they bring them home for personal use. Embarrassment of an organization. Corruption at its best I guess. Glad I left when I did. I hope hr see this review.

Pros

Benefits and some nice people

Cons

Management

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Productive and fun

Building Service worker/ Custodian (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 16 April 2019

Co-workers and supervisors are reachable. I've enjoyed working with co-workers and they helped you out if you need extra help. The hardest part of the job is if there's an event during your shift. But overall, management and co-workers are awesome!

Pros

Friendly staff and competitive wages

Cons

It takes a long time before you become a full time.

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Great experience and opportunity

Artist's Apprentice (Former Employee) - North Vancouver, BC - 30 June 2018

Studio in the City was an opportunity to work with other young artists to create a mural in my community. We mostly worked outside in the summer heat.

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