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Excellent personnel and work life balance (in 160 reviews)
Great pay and benefits for MBA Intern level (in 46 reviews)
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Some work life balance, but also expect to work longer hours when mgmt expects deliverables with short turn around times (in 24 reviews)
Senior management has SO MUCH experience they get into the weeds a bit much (in 27 reviews)
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"Great place to work at"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Fannie Mae full-time (More than 10 years)
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Great benefits at Fannie Mae. Been here long enough to vouch for that. Support work-life, education, housing. The annual Help the Homeless evens are great as well
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Nothing to complain about. Great place to work for. I have no complaints about working here. Management and co-workers are great to work with.
Advice to Management
Nothing
Fannie Mae 2016-09-30 11:14 PDT ![Fannie Mae Logo]()
"Business Analyst"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Fannie Mae full-time (More than 3 years)
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fannie has good pay and benefits, environment is very diverse with employees having varying backgrounds and perspectives
Cons
Bureaucracy exists in most places within the organization, although there is a push in many groups to become more lean
Advice to Management
The organization is too big with many redundancies, simplify and remove departments which are not needed. Also enterprise project management is a joke
Fannie Mae 2017-07-16 18:00 PDT![Fannie Mae Logo]()
"Hungry Professional"
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Approves of CEOI have been working at Fannie Mae full-time
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Good work - life balance. Company is constantly on a mission to improve processes.
Cons
Ambiguity and lack of cultural improvement. Advancement opportunities are not present.
Fannie Mae 2017-07-13 18:10 PDT![Fannie Mae Logo]()
"Good company, good people, good work, stifled growth"
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RecommendsNo opinion of CEOI worked at Fannie Mae full-time (More than 3 years)
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I really enjoyed the people I worked with. I also enjoyed my projects. I would say I was happy overall.
Cons
I kept getting switched from team to team, so it was hard to build rapport with my manager and get promoted. There was a hiring freeze and then head count cut, so promotions were scarce. Those that did get promoted had been with the manager a while [thinking face emoji]. I left because I didn't feel that my work was being recognized, I felt my stats (things that could actually be quantified) were better than others who were getting promoted. Could've just been my particular manager.
Advice to Management
Try to define what it takes to get promoted. I always felt like it was "do better", which I felt I did and then I wouldn't get a bonus or promotion. Towards the end when I had experience and lots of examples of excellent projects I got very frustrated and left.
Fannie Mae 2017-07-27 06:56 PDT![Fannie Mae Logo]()
"Excellent Work Environment"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Fannie Mae (More than a year)
Pros
Excellent Work Culture.
Exposure to tools and Technology.
Visibility of role and workCons
Environment is unpredictable
Benefits has been lowered compared to earlier.Fannie Mae 2017-07-12 08:01 PDT![Fannie Mae Logo]()
"Great Benefits, But Not Highly Competent nor Adept with Change"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Fannie Mae full-time (More than 5 years)
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- Better than average pay
- Outstanding benefits
- Great work/life balanceCons
- Some highly competent individuals and teams interspersed with far too many mediocre employees
- A weak officer corp with far too many 'lifer' officers that can't contribute best practices or thought leadership as they've not experienced many
- Far too little emphasis on intellectual capabilities and far too much emphasis on getting alongAdvice to Management
If Fannie Mae is to change its reputation from "a place where careers go to die", then it must emphasize quality over quantity. It must not perpetuate the practice of having average employees in the same role for years/decades and expect Fannie Mae to be a company that can be responsive to industry and regulatory changes. Fundamentally, its always about culture and although Fannie Mae talks a great game, it perpetuates mediocracy.
Fannie Mae 2017-07-26 07:04 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Sr. Data Analyst"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Fannie Mae full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Flexible work arrangement and teleworking options availalble
Cons
Politics at workplace and too much upper management interferance
Advice to Management
Try to initiate a better peer review process
Fannie Mae 2017-07-06 20:07 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Its ok not that grate. Its not upto my expectations from my group, but overall company is grate."
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Fannie Mae full-time
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Good company, upper level management is excellent. Benefits and compensation is excellent
Cons
Low level managers are not good. Its very hard to work with managers who are arrogant and not friendly
Advice to Management
Change mid level and low managers.
Fannie Mae 2017-07-19 06:41 PDT![Fannie Mae Logo]()
"Limited Opportunities for Advancement"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Fannie Mae full-time (More than 3 years)
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- Flexibility
- Great PTO & sick leave
- Excellent 401k matchCons
- No clear path for senior employees to advance into management
- Management does not focus on opportunities for staff development
- Parking can be a challenge in D.C. officesAdvice to Management
- Create clear, well articulated paths for senior functional staff to be promoted to management
- Create more opportunities for leadership and staff developmentFannie Mae 2017-07-20 16:16 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Technology Integration Consultant"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Fannie Mae full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
I found most employees to be very competent and knowledgeable.
Cons
Lack of accountability in upper management.
Advice to Management
Invest more capital into training.
Fannie Mae 2017-06-29 13:04 PDT
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