Highly political env., need a God-Father for your survival - Program Manager Fannie Mae Employee Review

1.0
9 Oct 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Their pay grades are decent, in par with the industry. Offer remote working capability, Offers lots of technology areas to work.

Cons

A high energy political environment. If you just do your work sincerely, but don’t keep your eyes & ears open (for what’s going around you) or if you don't know people (Director level and above), it is very hard to survive. Re-org is part of their culture. Before you stabilize with one re-org, another re-org will happen. You need to quickly adopt & rapidly "jump ship" from one group to another, else you will have no future. They have too many inefficiencies that they are struggling to improve in the eyes of FHFA (their monitoring / governing org). They pretend very well as though they are improving, but it is the "same old wine" in a new colored bottle. You do not need to have special talent to get an "officer" position (Director & above) in this company. All that you need is "to stay in the good books" of some of the existing officers. That's all.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
5 Jul 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I had thought I’d stay there until retirement. Pay was pretty good and while upward mobility was limited there was an open environment for learning and getting involved in new things. The company was socially conscious with volunteer time available. Flex schedules were available with manager approval and that helped us effectively implement work from home in 2020. We did work a lot of long hours to get projects done but the work seemed to be appreciated and rewarded.

Cons

For a company that had been highly profitable, Bill Pulte came in and started demanding changes for the company to be run more like one on the verge of bankruptcy. Managers were forced to spend significant time managing attendance and schedules and constantly justifying staffing just to have that ignored anyway. Anybody below a Director was cut completely out of these decisions meaning managers would show up to meetings to find the no-shows had been let go with no warning. You just started to see on people’s faces they were miserable, many long time associates quietly hoping they’d be included in the next round of cuts. It’s too bad, a company I had thought I’d retire with really just became toxic.

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