All depends on your manager - Anonymous employee Fannie Mae Employee Review

3.0
14 Nov 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you have a good manager you will do well. If you have a suboptimal manager of which there is plenty you have to either change groups or leave the company. Benefits are excellent, very few others can match benefits, 8 percent 401K match, 2 to 3 percent raise in salary every year. Above a certain level you also have a Long Term Incentive which is more or less assured at a certain percentage, till you suboptimal manager screws you.

Cons

Promotion depends on who you know, not always commensurate with your skill set.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
5 Jul 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I had thought I’d stay there until retirement. Pay was pretty good and while upward mobility was limited there was an open environment for learning and getting involved in new things. The company was socially conscious with volunteer time available. Flex schedules were available with manager approval and that helped us effectively implement work from home in 2020. We did work a lot of long hours to get projects done but the work seemed to be appreciated and rewarded.

Cons

For a company that had been highly profitable, Bill Pulte came in and started demanding changes for the company to be run more like one on the verge of bankruptcy. Managers were forced to spend significant time managing attendance and schedules and constantly justifying staffing just to have that ignored anyway. Anybody below a Director was cut completely out of these decisions meaning managers would show up to meetings to find the no-shows had been let go with no warning. You just started to see on people’s faces they were miserable, many long time associates quietly hoping they’d be included in the next round of cuts. It’s too bad, a company I had thought I’d retire with really just became toxic.

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