Freddie Mac – “Red-tape bureaucracy, but lot's of benefits and good pay.”
Pros
- Only have to work 39 hours a week
- Pay is great for an entry-level job, 9% performance bonus, sign-on bonuses cumulating to $7,000
- $12,000 off your first home
- Job stability
- Exposure to senior management
- Not much responsibility and work is easy
- Laid back culture
- Fun people to be around
Cons
- Little room for professional growth
- Management hired outside of the company
- Industry future is uncertain
- When you're in the mortgage industry, it's hard to get out
- DC traffic
- Lazy culture
Advice to Senior Management
Stop wasting so much time in unnecessary meetings and spend some time with your employees. Learn what they are actually doing. Leaders are not just bosses.