Still absolutely, positively after all the years - Senior Programmer/Analyst FedEx Employee Review

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company culture is great, very positive towards customers and employees. We're all in it together. The old "absolutely, positively" ethic is still alive at FedEx. Cost of living is low compared to pay for the Memphis area locations. Benefits are good, especially work life balance. My manager always says, "Work to live, don't live to work." FedEx is one of the largest shipping companies in the world, so we get to work on some of the largest, most interesting business challenges in the world.

Cons

FedEx (and its divisions) are a very large, mature company. Bureaucracy is the norm for large companies. It is easy to get lost in the masses. Advancement opportunities can be hard to find in many parts of the corp, unless you have a senior manager champion who wants you promoted. There is an entrenched good-old-boy network which can be hard to crack. Look out if/when Fred Smith retires.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Good consistency in pay, caring bosses, solid yearly raises, consistent/regular routes, not a lot of floating between routes after gaining minimal seniority. I was given a route to myself after only 5 months of work, even before then I was usually given that route with minimal floating to other routes for the day. I have loved working here. So much consistency and you are just basically driving all day, bringing cool people their packages (my route is a mix between in town and countryside). I highly recommend this company through a contractor, working for FedEx corporate/Express has mixed reviews. Not much micromanaging at all from my contractor.

Cons

Contracts between third-party and FedEx corporate are not always great or reasonable financially leading to occasional and temporary surprise increases in workload due to contracts with companies like Walmart, Costco, Amazon without much increase in base pay as a result, although contractors do compensate their drivers out of their profits. It would be nice if they received more from the third-parties as a result. The trucks take a beating but they do pretty well with what we give them, they still stay comfortably drivable and contractors are always ready to repair them. Sometimes the trucks struggle with A/C, not critically but still not always crispy and not extremely comfortable in mid-western heat.

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