What is working from home like at Freddie Mac?

Competitive pay, great benefits, 6 weeks work from home for year

5 day in-office mandatory work week

- Good office amenities in McLean, VA, offices with a gym, cafeterias, and a shuttle from Tyson's Metro to the offices - Training opportunities encouraged by management, like taking online courses - A lot of workers there are genuinely nice and helpful - Nice college cohort program for recent grads to learn more about the corporate business world

- We used to have a policy of working 3 days in the office: Tuesday - Thursday. Then, around early March, that guy B. P. from FHFA showed up at our office on Fox News on a MONDAY and started talking about how nobody uses the offices. Then we all get a letter how in a month, starting in May, we gotta work in an office 5 times a week. But it gets worse. Then in late March, my own DEPARTMENT gets told by the management that we have to show up 5 times a week in the office immediately starting next week in late March/early April - way before the official company-wide May rule. My team also got a new policy that for any time not spent in the office, we have to use our time off or sick hours, so we can not work from home AT ALL. And of course, we got zero compensation raises to accommodate this. - Also, that guy got rid of our own company CEO and a few others, including some DEI initiative people - They used to have a lot of stuff about DEI, like on their public page they talked about how their workplace ranks high for women and LGBT, but since the start of this year, they got rid of that part and have updated it just to say how it's good for veterans (you can use the wayback machine to check). And for reference, in terms of its political donations, the company is quite blue-leaning. Clearly, they are not consistent in their values whatsoever. - There is zero pushback to any of the changes by the management. No matter how ridiculous the new rules are, all of the managers have this attitude of "well, if you don't like it, leav.e" - This is team-specific but: I was hired for a software engineering role, and then, without any of my input, our department manager switched me onto another team, and most of my work was just more back-end QA testing, while I interviewed for a front-end CODING job. It was often overtime, with painfully outdated infrastructure, and in about 9 months, 6 people got fired or somehow left. Zero support from the management.

Great Benefits and work from home options

Very political and no diversity in upper management

work from home .. and great pay

Micro management, very strict on time management

- Work flexibility - Good working environment

- No more work from home

Overall, Freddie Mac is a good company with good benefits. Provided you have a good manager, you may be able to take advantage of the company's flexible work life. Hybrid workdays for many. We have a new CEO (third in 5 years), so that can't be rated.

Some senior leaders are using bad data to support making sure employees are in the office 8 hours a day, rather keeping flexible work hours for doctor's appointments and kid care, etc. (within reason and in concert with your manger). For example, before if you had a doctor's appointment in the morning, you could work from home, go to the doctor and then go into the office to finish out the day. Now, they insist on having you in the office 8 hours, so the time you put in a home doesn't 'count' as work. Now, that's their prerogative. But it is hurting employee engagement. Having been in the working world a long time, I see this as an unforced error. They may lose some good people because of this. If there are employees taking advantage, have the managers deal with that directly, rather than punish the entire organization. There's not much opportunity for growth. Salary increases are average, but managers are required to identify a certain percentage of people in their group as 'underperformers' so they don't get raises, even if the entire team is filled with solid performers. This also is demotivating.

The cafeteria is pretty cheap and serve decent food.

This place is like walmart except it's supposedly a corporate facility. There are some good people, but tons of people who have been there too long and should leave. They create a toxic work environment and keep wanting to have meeting after meeting to waste everyone's time. The overall building facility is trash. Terrible office set up, there's no real WFH and contractors are treated pretty poorly. I blame the culture, it's horrible place to work. Everyone I speak to is looking for a new job. It's a very toxic environment with little support and tons of politics.

Work from home Various cafeterias Room to grow

Northern Virginia traffic is not great

Flexible WFH and many PTO

Political, bad management, and no promotion

Work Life Balance and Overall Culture.

5 Days in office and capped WFH time.