FedEx Reviews

Pros

Great Company Brand, Stable employment, Sales flexibility,

Cons

not much of a incentive in bonus compensation, work life balance,

Advice to Senior Management

Need to better compensation bonus program for sales, Need to be consistent with people first philosophy. Need to have more support for sales when implementing so many changes.

Pros

Great reputation and amazing service
Flexibility and supportive management
Opportunities to learn and grow within the company
People first culture

Cons

Compensation imbalances are not corrected overtime
Need for more specific, organized professional orientation
Innovation needs to extend internally
IT infrastructure needs to be completely rebuilt

Advice to Senior Management

Redevelop IT infrastructure with all services in mind
Fix imbalances in pay when mergers from other aquisitions
Focus on cooperation between different service types

Pros

Overall it was a great place to work. The management was great. For an internship, the assignments were challenging. People are real friendly and easy to meet. In particular the managers in different departments. Once you get your foot in the door there are a lot of opportunities in many different areas of the company. There is job security.

Cons

Corporate environment that was a little to process oriented.

Pros

Safe, hard to lose job
Service works well, so easy to sell
Decent Salary
Good benefits
Not micromanaged
Travel benefits
Freedom to manage schedule daily as needed

Cons

Bonus structure is limited and often changes to companies advantage
Not much salary incentive to move up
Boring
No visibility to details on compensation during quarter

Advice to Senior Management

Pay better bonus to sales people who are the life blood of this company.
The company has had incredible gains since the 5% pay-cuts were taken, so give
that money back to the people who made it work!

Pros

money , hours , weekends off , decent pay , starts off at 10.25 and up with exp. inside track to post office

Cons

you get treated like crap if you dnt hit goa your getting screamed atl senoir mangment will write you up for every little thing

Advice to Senior Management

worry more about your people and not so much your own paychecks other people work in the building too you know

Pros

Job retention is semi stable.
Benefits are OK.
Flexible work schedules.
co-workers look out for each other.
Facilities are usually decent.

Cons

Management has no idea of what direction they are going. It seems most job time is spent figuring out ways to justify your job..... Productivity is very low. Management could care less if things are done right.

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline! Get experts in to assess how things could be done better (don't just use trial and error). Especially with Fedex Office Support.

Pros

the job opportunity is amazing

Cons

there a lot of people.

Pros

There are only a few good things about FedEx; good work life balance; good health care plan. Other people who don't know will think it looks good on your resume.

Cons

Management is incompetent to say the least, basic operations are beyond them. They have no ability to grow the business they only obtain business by means of customers who only know their name. They spent millions of dollars to change the colors of their logos, however their OS is from 1992.

Advice to Senior Management

Priorities, matching colors for your logo should come behind giving your employees up to date technology. Hire managers with experience outside of FedEx and in the field that they are going to manage in.

Pros

- Most people work 30-35 hrs per week
- High job security
- Good work environment
- Nice team work culture

Cons

- Salary is just comfortable and mostly the same for high, low and mediocre performers
- There is no career growth path
- Very low risk taking culture
- Every job is posted and people are interviewed. People who want to move forward spend more than half their time networking and other half creating interview packets. Promotion or career advancement is probably 20% dependent on skill and 80% on networking.
- Without promotions, which take on average about 5-10 years, the annual raises are about 1-3%. Yes the range is difference between significantly exceeding expectations and not meeting expectations

Advice to Senior Management

- Provide career advancement tracks for people
- Create a culture where people are focused on their current job and have access to training so that they can move to higher jobs. Current culture of people figuring out the process of upward movement over 5-6 years and 8-10 interviews is very wasteful of everyone's time.
- It is a waste of everyone's time to apply for job, get recommendations, update job application packets, research on new job, network for new job, setup mock interviews, interview for the job, get feedback on interview.
- Stop promoting a culture of mediocrity and implement some good pay for performance programs

Pros

FedEx offers extremely competitive salaries and benefits. Funding and resources are allocated sufficiently to meet the needs of critical projects.

Cons

Politics and personal agendas can get in the way of progress at times. There are not many promotional opportunities, especially for management and above. Some areas have to pull the weight for others.

Advice to Senior Management

Build a shared strategic vision and break down silos. Improve career development and promotional opportunities at all levels. Be willing to take risks.