FedEx Reviews

Pros

Stable work, interesting environment. Much to learn if you want to . Able to choose your own path if you are a high performer.

Cons

Monotonous, long hours, contractors telling FTE what to do.

Pros

Large company with good worldwide presene

Cons

Not very open to new hires.

Advice to Senior Management

Be open to more new people.

Pros

Short shifts, great pay, great benefits, and plenty of growth oppurtunities if you would like to take full advantage of them

Cons

Some of the people who work there have terrible people skills It is easy for the lazy people to get away without working

Advice to Senior Management

Treat all of the employess equally and reward those who do there work. And remeber to treat everyone as an adult.

Pros

great company with a good business model
great benefits in terms of discounted shipping and airline discounts
culture is friendly

Cons

opportunity for growth is very limited. You will get promoted based on who and not what you know.
performance evaluation is a joke. No real reward for being a star performer.

Advice to Senior Management

We are losing lot of great employees because there is no room for growth.
We seem to be process oriented company rather than result oriented.

Pros

The benefits are excellent, the hours are flexible around my schedule, the management system is fine - an all around good company

Cons

The benefits package was just adjusted. Depending on your situation (married, single, kids) it can be a negative, but that varies by individual situations

Advice to Senior Management

My advice to management would be to hire managers who have actually done the job(s) they are managing. It'll be the situtation better for all parties involved

Pros

independent work day. drive alot drives

Cons

poor management, low pay, word

Advice to Senior Management

tell the truth , don't lie

Pros

The brand
Stability
Build friendships
Can lead to a better job with another company

Cons

Pay based on how cool you are with your mgr
Treat sales reps like kids
childrenlike culture
mgmt doesn't promote based on performance
mgmt give different performance reviews based on who they like
mgmt disrespects employees and tell employees business
mgmt lie constantly to employees
getting hired is strictly based on referrals and not your background
education is not important here
Annual salary increase is terrible

Advice to Senior Management

Promote based on performance
Get rid of mgmt that have been at the bottom for years
Treat reps like adults not kids
Pay based on performance
Don't promote only your friends

Pros

Very enjoyable place to work, lots of training opportunities and ability to move up if you are willing to.

Cons

There is a lot of bureaucracy with anything that needs done. Any project that would take a week to complete will take 10 weeks due to all the paperwork associated with it. Medical insurance is expensive and bad.

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline the internal processes to reduce the bottlenecks.

Pros

Meeting people & building a close relationship with regular customers is a positive with FedEx if it lasts, however the company is constantly playing games with numbers and goals by micromanaging, that seems to bump some people from there routes, then a few months later when the big ideas / plans fail to produce any gains it goes back to the same old way, but your no longer with your old customers because you were probably forced to move or bumped

Cons

unobtainable goals that have been constantly raised for more than a decade to the point you can no longer make them unless you break all the rules set in stone, break most rules of the road including that you speed thru neighborhood streets, briskly sprint up to all the homes or bussiness, and work thru most of your lunch lining up the rest of the days work on your own time i might add, just to get close to your goal to avoid the daily NOID

Advice to Senior Management

Lower management positions really cant make a direct call or stand for the hourly employees, in return not much if anything that hourly employees have issues with ever gets addressed to and or resolved beyond the station level

Pros

compensation, work/life balance. Fred Smith is amazing. Probably would be disgusted to know how some of his sales managers "lead" and operate. Great products to sell, strong portolio, adapting to change and trends. Leader in technology, other than rates we upstage the competition.

Cons

incompetent management on the district level, disorganization.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more money on entertainments and promotional items to give sales reps an edge. The "call cycle" is ridiculous, customers don't want to see us once a week.