Fannie Mae Associate Data Engineer reviews

Most Technical Leads and Managers care only about their own careers Technical leads and managers over-exaggerated their skill sets and want to appear the “smartest” Technical leads and managers set unreasonably high standards for project and deliverables they don’t understand or are not qualified to review

Everything at FNMA is about appearances with no concern for function: 1. Managers prioritize sexy projects with questionable value rather than making sure their core products don't fall apart. 2. Cybersecurity is mostly theater and requires insane workarounds with chains of virtual machines that often break and are extremely slow when they do work. 3. Upper management's solution to everything is to create additional bureaucracy that covers things that were already covered. 4. Documentation usually exists, but it is designed by and for technically incompetent audiences. It's also stored on random confluence pages that aren't kept to date.