Smoke and Mirrors - Anonymous employee FM Employee Review

3.0
Sep 25, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

clean environment; parking garage; great food service and on site health club; interesting work; good technology; freedom of movement during working hours; (depends on manager).

Cons

inexperienced middle management; rigid written policies which are not applied equally; interpretation of benefits and polices left to discretion if each manager which may cause unequal treatment and perk distribution; women are second class; staff is undervalued; benefits are used to leverage employment but are not always available when needed, again another "at the discretion of management " process. Executives have many perks as well as high salaries; staff has little perks and salaries on the low end. Many relatives work together so there is an unspoken sense of entitlement; if you are "liked" you are in like flynn, meaning have all the ammenities available to you regardless of qualifications; if you are disliked, consider yourself micromanaged; and will have no job growth whatsoever, even if you have exemplary skills and will eventually be pushed out due to bland treatment by manager. Comments are from an observation viewpoint.

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Cons

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Pros

* Great business model at the foundation * Solid compensation program: Base salary + bonus * Sustained high profitability over the long term * Stable employement * Pension Plan

Cons

* Extremely hierarchical and regimented * Promotions based on favortism rather than true merit. Employees are precategorized and stigmatized on their ability for future career progression. * Extremely focused on metrics and internal objectives. This leads to box checking, cutting corners and bending rules to meet the numbers. * Extremely heavy workload. No work-life balance. * Management doesn't really incorporate employee feedback; they pretend to to check a box. * Quality of job suffers to keep up with quantity. Everything is becoming data driven and the data is often wrong. Enormous pressure to hit a button and accept at face value whatever the system spews out. * Our CEO builds fancy gold plated office buildings that aren't needed and pulled the plug on hybrid work to justify the investment in the real estate.

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