FMC Technologies Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Work life balance is good, visibility to management is solid. Opportunities can be endless and quick moves are an option.

Cons

Depending on manager life can get hectic. Occasionally employees can be held back by a manager who does not want them to move on.

Advice to Management

Keep the values intact and focus on the work life balance. Integrity has always been integral and should be considered throughout the business.

Pros

Good pay and atmosphere. Good work life balance.

Cons

Unstable due to the nature of the oil and gas industry

Pros

Work life balance at FMC is very good, I was able to negotiate extra PTO and could use it at my own discretion. There are a great group of folks working there and all understand the hurdles you face working at FMC.

Cons

Turnover is ridiculous, especially at the operational level at the field locations. As soon as you build re pore with someone, poof they are gone. FMC Can't seem to retain the strong, smart, and sociable employees. I think it is honestly due to the fact that upper management has done a pretty awful job of providing guidance on how to navigate in the industry today. Every couple of months there is a new... re-organization of the division and new managers, it provides a pretty unstable culture which creates fear within the employees to even want to stay.

Advice to Management

Please stop promoting folks that come of as "team players,NICE, go getters" and start promoting individuals based off their work performance and reviews from managers that have worked with them through projects. There are way too many people that were cut that would've helped whether the storm going on in the industry. Instead, there are a ton of folks still employed at FMC that only made it by the way of brown... nosing.... therefore your ship is sinking.

Pros

7% matching 401k (3% vested after 3 years), 3 weeks vacation, Good work/life balance. Tons of project work in good times. Lots of opportunity to advance your career if you choose to do so (lots of sideways movement, only upward movement if you obtain an MBA). Layoff packages aren't so bad. Good management (they generally leave you alone if you're kicking butt...aka..providing on-time delivery so we look good in... the face of the customer and management gets their big bonuses).

Cons

Lots of red tape. Good ol' boys club in management (don't get me wrong, most of them are good people, but you just have to be in their club to play at that level). Lower and middle management are tend to parrot orders from the top and are generally do not have the power to do anything but within the scope of their tiny circle of power.

Advice to Management

You're doing the best you can given the times.

Pros

Great pay and great people

Cons

Very little work/ life balance

Pros

Great 401K Plan and Company Match

Cons

Top Heavy, Horrible upper management, Don't value employee's, No vision, Sale out's, Horrible work/Life Balance, You have to be mobile if you want to have a chance to succeed.

Advice to Management

Follow your core value of Valuing People. Actions speak much louder than words!

Pros

good 401k match which is up to 9%. work life balance is pretty good as well.

Cons

the company comes from manufacturing and has been in a touch situation trying to figure out how to do R&D. FMCTI spent huge amount of money trying to develop subsea processing equipment by itself, but ended up with a big failure. Main reason, from my personal perspective view, is the company does not know how to do research and development, because they used to copy and manufacture XT, manifold and other subsea... equipment. Most middle level managers does not have enough technical skills and experience how to do R&D. Some typical manager with technology center likes micro-management and bullying people.

Pros

When the industry is doing well, it is very easy to move around the company to gain experience and try different things. When you have a good manager, you end up with more flexibility that allows you to maintain work-life balance while focusing on your work instead of tripping on the myriad rules governing employees.

Cons

Having a bad manager can easily make your work life (and to some degree, your home life) miserable. Employees are governed not only by listed rules, but also by FMC's "core values", meaning that anything that can be argued as running counter to one of the core values is a potential write-up.

Advice to Management

Find ways to weed out the bad-apple managers, and continue developing managerial skills. Everything else will fall into place.