Once was great, has gone to crap - Operations Engineer Fannie Mae Employee Review

1.0
Apr 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

8% 401k match, 25+ days vacation and encouraged to use it, everyone is very competent and smart, leadership tries to work with you for any conflicts.

Cons

Ever since we came under the total and utter control of Bill Pulte from FHFA, the company has absolutely gone down the toilet. This used to be a company that valued flexibility and family time, but now they’ve forcibly adopted the Trump agenda of being all gung-ho about working from an office even though it’s half as productive and half as profitable as working remotely. We all had to upheave our lives, going from a 100% remote company to a 100% RTO model due to Trump and Pulte’s agenda, in LESS than 3 days. A big portion of us live out of state and have had to organize child care and paid for inflated, last-minute hotel and transportation costs (OUT OF POCKET by the way) just to satisfy the ignorant Trump administration. Our senior leaders have done absolutely nothing to reassure us that things will get easier, ie they haven’t opened the regional offices and stopped approving remote work requests. They fired 200+ employees for “fraud” without due process or proof, to satisfy DOGE (trump, again!). Low-level leaders (managers) are trying as best they can to work with us, but we’re at the mercy of Putle and Trump because of the hostile takeover that has come upon us.

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5.0
Mar 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to work an would recommend

Cons

Nothing out the normal. The usual ups and downs

4.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The culture is more supportive than competitive/toxic; quite decent work-life balance; good benefits - especially 401k; heavy emphasis on utilization of AI to support most job functions but with risk and safety in mind.

Cons

Changes are quite fast-paced and growth can be slow. Experience can be very team, project, and division specific as with any big company.

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