FMC Technologies Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Benefits, schedule, people, opportunities, work life balance.

Cons

Management structure, buddy systems, Unnecessary changes at any signs of adversity. retaining the worst talent to secure self during layoffs leaving the company at risk or in tight spots. letting go all of the knowledgeable people that helped mold the company into what it was.

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.

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.

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.

Pros

Very heavy in engineering. Great training program for employees.

Cons

Poor work-life balance. Work engineers beyond capacity. Undervalue improvement ideas.

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.

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.