Consultant Engineer I - Field Engineer I FM Employee Review

4.0
Jun 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great work life balance for the first few years. Work from home or travel (0-10 nights a month). Kinda like the show "how stuff works", as you get to inspect a bunch of businesses. FM attracts established career oriented people, as well as mousy analytical types. People keep to themselves in a quiet office atmosphere. Most office talk is about the job or sports.

Cons

This is a large and old company, this is no start-up. Be prepared to navigate detailed bureaucratic processes.

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5.0
Apr 17, 2026
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Pros

Good company, fantastic work life balance and people there are really nice

Cons

salary is okay but not the best compared with the other big tech companies

2.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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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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