The Worst Tech Company Ever - Anonymous employee Fannie Mae Employee Review

1.0
Jun 13, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free coffee and Hot chocolate. It's very hard to find much positive. The pay is average, but dependent on things not related to your job position.

Cons

They follow the philosophy that lots of management makes a better product. People who have run operations organizations typically run the development organizations. These people are very short sighted and lack the experience to run a truly world class development organization. Software Development here is more akin to a third world sweet shop. Too much process and procedure to get much done in an efficient manner. Cronyism is run rampant. Vendors are push down to development teams through the vast number of VPs in the organization. Vendors tend to have high rates and no skills. Literally most kids out of college with good leaders can do much better, faster and for less cost. Simple projects in other companies that take 4 our 5 people to do in 6 months, take a team of 40 to do in a year. Poor quality code and workmanship is everywhere.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

The culture is more supportive than competitive/toxic; quite decent work-life balance; good benefits - especially 401k; heavy emphasis on utilization of AI to support most job functions but with risk and safety in mind.

Cons

Changes are quite fast-paced and growth can be slow. Experience can be very team, project, and division specific as with any big company.

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