FM Global Reviews

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Advancement can be slow due to longjevity of staff.

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-Employees are often promoted based on tenure, not skill
-Male dominated organization
-Does not offer work from home or telecommuting arrangements
-Not reactive to bad employee behavior or management skills

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No advancement opportunities. Archaic work practices. Micro management. Management by intimidation. No longer any regard for employees with this new Senior Management. HR department incompetent.

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Work load
Advancement depends heavily on tenure

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New "agile" Work space is terrible and a waste of money. McKinsey strikes again......

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There is no room for growth and advancement due to the low turnover. Some people on my team haven’t been promoted for over 10 years. I would advise any young engineer to stay away! There are no meetings, no presentations, basically you sit in your office and worry about your own clients by yourself. That is the culture that has been, and that is the culture that will stay. Management is too far behind the times and conservative to make any changes or approve any changes to culture.

As an engineer you will do no engineering at all. It’s all report writing. My manager even told me “it’s not our job to think, we just give them their Approval if they pass the tests stated in the standard”. I repeat, do not come here is you are a young or ambitious engineer. This is a dead end job, you won’t build any skills relevant to engineering here. The skills you will build are relevant to FM global only. Which is part of the reason people stay here so long.

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Incompetent manager conveyor belt. As soon as a manager has a year (sometimes much less) of non-accomplishments, they are promoted. And those left behind never see any improvements, because the next incompetent manager comes along. Promotions have nothing whatsoever to do with real experience or skill. It is 100% about gaining the attention of higher managers. The non-managers in the company have been abandoned by the clan of people climbing over themselves to be noticed and rewarded. Nothing good will come from the lack of any decent management structure. The IS department has moved to "Agile" which in FM Global's case means a bunch of people have been let go, the ones left have no idea what's going on, and less work is getting done than ever before. People within IS report that there are people who can skate by without doing anything, due to the confusion. There is nothing in place to correct this. There are no benefits of Agile visible to anyone outside of senior management. We are an insurance company, and we now have a system in place that allows the IS department to decide if anyone else can have the tools they need to operate the insurance part of the business. And they can take as long as they want to deliver the tools, even if the delay is unreasonable. It's almost like the CEO has forgotten what we do! All of a sudden we're acting like a really bad tech company. Things were going pretty well with the last CEO. The problem is that managers feel they need to "make their mark" and change things even when it's nonsensical. This appears to be at every level of management.

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No cons at this time

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They will get you interested with the great benefits package, but this company is no longer secure or a very good environment to work in. Management style is archaic, inept and the company is peppered with nepotism. They hired McKinsey to come in and get them ready for agile. The outcome was to layoff many employee's, even though there was no need to at all. Many were over 40 and are very good at what they do. This has negatively affected morale and productivity greatly. They put the entire IS department through a lot during the process. They eliminated over 150 jobs and made everyone re-apply for their old job, knowing very well who they were planning on letting go, regardless of the outcome of the interview. Yet, they kept nearly all the managers, many of which are quite inept. They laid off too many people for the work load and worse yet, they aren't ready for agile. It is clear management made these decisions too quickly and with no real plan surrounding resources in place. Managements expectations of IS are unrealistic. The open floor seating is horrible and makes it hard to concentrate. Zero privacy. No work from home policy. Things seem to be getting worse, not better. The pension isn't worth it. Sad that this is no longer the company it used to be.

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Where to start... over the past year, this company has lost some good people and no one seems to know why. Management has gone off the rails, starting with the Top at MBRe with Big Boss Man and it rolls down hill from there to his toady managers, three managers specifically. Management has an ‘us vs. them’ mentality (which has been stated from one manager to another manger on how to ‘properly’ interact with their employees); claims has had insane turnover in less than a year (probably about 10 people), people are put on an ‘action plan’ for no reason other than top management may not like something that was either said or done; more than one manager, throws out threats of action plans without any history of poor performance nor any prior verbal or written warnings as per company policy, and when people leave for better opportunities, she arbitrarily puts notes in people’s files for them to never be rehired by the company or any other FM Global affiliate because she states that the employee left ‘due to performance issues’ when it’s not even true. One manager loves talking poorly about employees for some sadistic reason in order to get Big Boss Man all worked up to try to keep people in fear of losing their jobs.

If that’s not enough to stay away, feel free to come on board to experience the madness first hand... there’s plenty of openings now and in the future. It’s a shame too, because this used to be such a nice place to work until early last year.

I’m surprised this company hasn’t been sued for either wrongful termination or creating such a hostile work environment which caused people who weren’t even looking for jobs to leave, because their mental health couldn’t take it any more.

If you want the following jobs that they are currently hiring for, here’s a very brief rundown of the end result:

Claims: you’ll get 8-10 per day, expect to not to pay legitimate claims, fight with management to pay said legitimate claims, then be micromanaged until you find a better opportunity elsewhere
Territory Manger: you’ll run around like a chicken with your head cut off, be on the road all the time and when you need a break, Big Boss Man will say your garbage and tell his toady marketing manager that you need to find another job
IT: you’ll be over worked, have your work performance scrutinized, then when you’re fired for being overworked, you’ll be taken out on a stretcher. ... yes that actually happened

Have fun applying...