FedEx Reviews

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – Great work life balance. Good benefits package.

Cons – Lack of career coaching and growth opportunity.

Advice to Senior Management – no comments.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – Relatively slop-paced environment with adequate support and resources to define and implement new products/services. Ample opportunities for a promotion into a management position.

Cons – Too much inertia and bureaucracy that would frustrate someone who has worked in a smaller company and is used to fast product cycles. Internal debates/resource allocation process takes as much energy as any project itself.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward meritocracy instead of trying to fill diversity quotas. Streamline and demand greater efficiency and output across the board from management and employees. Internal structure and hierarchy is quite unwieldy and greatly hinders the progress of the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – Strong work ethic and camaraderie amongst employees. 1st level management and middle management competent and in tune with work environment.

Cons – Upper management applying very strict rigid bureaucracy to software development, and spending millions on offshore development. The offshore work is highly unskilled and much productivity is lost inventing busy work for them. Bureaucracy woes are compounded that it is ever changing.

Advice to Senior Management – Rank and file employees are truly disillusioned with the current corporate direction and strategy. Most of the new processes is pretty much useless spreadsheets, constantly updated with garbage which pulls employees away from their work, leading to poor quality of software creating a vicious cycle of adding more processes to improve quality. FedEx Services is greatly suffering from "too much of a good thing".

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – One must work at product marketing group in FedEx Services to enable career growth and financial reward.

Cons – There are few departments to avoid.

Advice to Senior Management – No comments.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – 1. Great work environment
2. Very good people policies
3. Low cost living
4. Great senior management

Cons – 1. Low chances of growth
2. Exceptional performance not rewarded with exceptional career growth - little difference in mediocre and high performers growth/salary structure.
3. Memphis is not the most vibrant city (but has low cost of living)

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Rehaul of performance management & pay by performance programs
2. Establish specific programs targeted to groom high performing individuals

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – Benefits and job advancement opportunities. Work/ life balance is really good. FedEx is a great stepping stone to gather experience and move on.

Cons – The job itself is not very challenging and therefore not really rewarding. Compensation is not there and the bonus system is a fraud.

Advice to Senior Management – Some upper management does not take the employees seriously and make wrong decisions to bring down the morale of the work environment.

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – Decent pay, incentives to grow. You must have a knowledge of who's who and network well to make sure you get ahead.

Cons – Incentives are hard to reach, mostly a climb on your own. Management doesn't listen often, and if they do they're mostly appeasing.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen more closely and possibly consider changing your management style. The classical method is most desired, so please get away from the political type.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – FedEx is ...very big... on nudging employees to increase their knowledge-base. This action is required because the firm has sophisticated financial modeling tools that rely on its incredibly huge data-base, which covers its customer's shipping habits, and the corresponding costs. One example: An Services Department employee needs to become pretty well schooled with SQL and other database management tools. FedEx offers a number of "live" training classes in addition to on-line-based coursework, which greatly helps the employee develop or fine-tune code-writing skills.

Cons – Required training session, either live or taught on-line, are often a big time-sink. This, particularly when the school session occurs during a workday. Project deadlines always loom, so the required training classwork... in a live classroom setting... can materially eat-away at a productive day. The on-line based training programs, particularly with database management, can be very arduous... the text-based product MUST BE VERY CLOSELY READ in order to move-up to the next module. A live training class would offer hands-on help quickly vs. a website-session that might require the student hours to catch-on to the same topic. However, the live classes are traditionally only during the workday. I suggest offering evening and weekend "live" training sessions... particularly when it involves learning how to effectively use powerful but high degree of difficulty tools... like SQL.

Advice to Senior Management – I suggest offering Employees evening and weekend "live" training sessions... particularly when it involves learning how to effectively use powerful but high degree of difficulty tools... like SQL.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – Very employee friendly. You will get to work with a very smart, highly efficient set of co-workers without a cut-throat environment.

Cons – Since most people dont leave FedEx after joining, promotions become more difficult. Although the company has a policy for promoting from within, it is highly competitive and almost like an internal job application rather than an automatic promotion based on superior performance. Due to this, your "interviewing skills" and ability to "sell yourself" become as important, if not more, than the job skills necessary to suceed in the new position. Not a bad thing necessarily.

Advice to Senior Management – Great job on creating a very employee friendly yet effective workplace. It would be better to do away some of the bureaucratic ways in place for dealing with larger projects, which hamper rather than help the projects. Employees spend more time in dealing with these issues, rather than doing the work at hand, which most of the time leads to delays in all major projects rather than a timely completion.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at FedEx

Pros – good benefits, good retirement, vacation policy

Cons – not enough opportunities to advance

Advice to Senior Management – make more tough decisions create more internal opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend