FedEx Sr Programmer Analyst reviews

Bonuses and other compensation lopsidedly favor the people on top. Most of the management chain of command is often more focused on producing numbers and reports and looking good to the people above them. In IT disagreement with directives from higher up are discouraged - people in such positions "retire early" or "leave to pursue other opportunities"; this results in no negative feedback ever going up the chain for improvements and reduction of waste and overhead. Needless to say, everything that comes down from the CIO "succeeds". The company relies heavily Fred Smith's [excellent] business sense & judgment. When he leaves, there are very, very few in this company's upper echelons that can replace him with any probability of success. The most likely scenario when he retires is a slow but inevitable downward spiral and FedEx will be another corporate machine run on numbers. Company is still extremely dependent on the state of the economy & price of oil.

The salaries are not the highest in the industry The benefits are not great and are getting worse Be prepared to only have two weeks of vacation for your first 5 years at FedEx When something bad happens, assigning blame is more important than resolving the issue and moving on