Great culture, benefits and opportunities, not competitive pay - Risk Analyst Fannie Mae Employee Review

4.0
Aug 16, 2021
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Pros

The company culture is good - they have been continuously working on it for the past few years to create an agile and inclusive work environment. There was no "training/rotating program" for my hiring year which is both a pro and a con. The benefits are great, and so is work life balance for seemingly all levels of employees. They have been working towards technological improvements that in turn create career opportunities.

Cons

Due to recent changes in job titles, it seems harder to move up in a traditional sense (ex. Risk analyst 1 to risk analyst 2), which is important to entry level employees such as myself. The salary does not compete well with other tech/financial companies. Depending on the team, work in the entry level analytics positions may not be challenging or rewarding enough for those who come from heavy mathematics and statistics backgrounds, as opposed to business/IT.

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5.0
May 25, 2026
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Pros

benefits, pay, work life balance

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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