OK but heading downhill fast - Anonymous employee FM Employee Review

2.0
11 Nov 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible work life/balance Good pension Good training opportunities if you join as a field engineer safe company, unlikely to ever get fired

Cons

pay is not competitive rampant favouritism is apparent in many departments. Many jobs are not even advertised and given to preferred candidates without any due process. Obscene levels of hierarchy with most managers up to SVP level having no authority or ability to institute change Company is going through an identity crisis and has made everything, Agile. Senior leadership are scared to rock the boat and follow whatever management consultants tell them. Diversity and inclusion initiative seems to have no goals or meaningful outcomes. Appears to be for show so that execs can say they have this box ticked. Almost no job progression unless you are prepared to relocate consistently. Otherwise progression is dependent on others finally retiring

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

* Pay and benefits * Industry best technical and engineering foundation

Cons

Miserable, toxic, regimented place to work. In recent years trended this direction. Now it is much worse. Corporate office recently changed job responsibilities for Account Managers and Underwriters in a project called "RACI". The result is lopsided heavy workload dumped on underwriters that we aren't properly staffed to perform with qualified people. Underwriters are being set up to fail unless willing to work 60-80 hours per week and make your personal life secondary to all else. AM's are being turned into "Account Executives" and will lose most underwriting skills. Underwriters now have a dead-end career path. There are numerous co-workers with huge egos that jockey for position and favor. They love to hear themselves talk in meetings. Since promotions are based on favortism and nepotism who can blame them. Management keeps a matrix of all employees and their potential for advancement. If you are in the wrong square on the matrix you are stigmatized.

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