appraiser - Tester of AVM Fannie Mae Employee Review

1.0
Oct 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good pay, intelligent coworkers,

Cons

the middle managers were the worst I have ever experienced. they "ruled" by fear, intimidation, and by eavesdropping. They passed the buck, threw people under the bus, were in it for themselves not the company. it was a no talent bunch of friends that got in before the ramp up for the housing crisis, and then backfilled with appraisers that really had talent. To cover their own incompetence, they hid in their offices, traveled in pairs through the hallways because you could cut the tension with a knife and they were afraid because they had treated so many, so poorly.

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 5, 2026
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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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