IT Risk Analyst - IT Risky Analyst Fannie Mae Employee Review

3.0
Aug 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company benefits such as 3% loan for house down payment, educational benefits up to 10K annually.

Cons

Corporate culture is lousy. Has a tendency to put the wrong people in the wrong positions. Chronic cronyism. No relationship between work performed and compensation. Warning, Fannie Mae has a problem of putting people managers over technical teams. I had a Manager who did not understand Information Technology and could not provide technical leadership to her team, but was performing performance evaluations. High Turnover in company. Professionals accustom to working in a high disciplined environment with high caliber professions might be discouraged. Company has a tendency to lay off people before they reach tenure but abrupt restructuring.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 5, 2026
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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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