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Farm Credit Financial Partners (FPI)

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2.0
14 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lot's of great people to work with. Company mission is fantastic and has a lot of potential. Benefits were decent, pay for some jobs was comparable to Hartford, CT area. Customers were supportive and fun to engage with. Opportunity to learn a lot about various technical systems is there.

Cons

Work / life balance isn't good (but with all the extra hours you will learn a lot!). More projects in flight than can possibly be accomplished with the given staffing. Onboarding of new customers is consuming every department to the point that existing projects are suffering. Several managers who don't know when to push back or set realistic expectations for project tasks create the above scenario. Understanding who has responsibility for what is a significant challenge. C-Suite has more than one under performer, and is very territorial (except the CFO who works well with everyone). Developers and Infrastructure are isolated from each other following leadership examples. Only at the individual contributor or PM level do they interact. Strategy sessions are reserved only for those deemed worthy by management (its not an actual skillset decision).

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Farm Credit Financial Partners (FPI) Response
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I’m glad to see that there were many things about FPI that you liked. We understand that not every company is a match for everybody, but we love where our company is right now. We have lots of exciting projects, so yes, we are busy. We just completed a very successful on-boarding of a great new customer, Farm Credit Illinois. We are also working on our next-generation platforms based on SalesForce technology and we are investing in our people. Over 30 of our employees have completed SalesForce certifications. All I can say about our executive team is, look at their BIOs on our website (www.financialpartners.com). An impressive group who are transforming our organization as we have become the leading technology shop in the Farm Credit System. Howard Bruck, CEO

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Pros

Everyone was very nice and outgoing great environment to work in and learn in. I Would go back the company had many fun events and I felt at home within the first week of being there.

Cons

The timing was unfortunate because they got a new manager on the same day I started so he didn't know how to guide me at first because he had started the same day I did.

2.0
5 May 2026
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Pros

Lot of good people working there when I was there. The folks who have been there the longest on the technical side are phenomenal and so supportive and patient.

Cons

The culture was very stressful. Everything was always an emergency. Developers were expected to do everyone's job and then of course also blamed for anything that went wrong. When I was there, the on call expectations were insane. From day one they made it clear that the expectation is that you will work way more than 40 hours/week (when there's an emergency! which was always) and not be paid well for it.

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