Is Fannie Mae a good company to work for?

Fannie Mae has an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5, based on over 3,059 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 7% over the last 12 months. 53% of employees would recommend working at Fannie Mae to a friend and 38% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Fannie Mae have been left by employees working as Cyber Security Analyst , Intern and Associate Software Engineer .

Does Fannie Mae pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Fannie Mae employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Fannie Mae. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Fannie Mae?

53% of Fannie Mae employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Fannie Mae 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Fannie Mae?

Software Engineer (89) , Project Manager (70) , Director (68) , Senior Associate (68) , Business Analyst (67) , Manager (63) , Lead Associate (52) , Analyst (40) , Associate (39) , Senior Software Engineer (36) , Senior Project Manager (30) , Associate Software Engineer (29) , Financial Analyst (27) , Financial Engineer (24) , Intern (24)

What are the pros of working at Fannie Mae according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits and Very worker friendly" ((in 474 reviews)); "Good work/life balance if you know how to manage up and manage your workload" ((in 345 reviews)); "Great people and team environment" ((in 188 reviews)); "Great culture and values." ((in 92 reviews)); "Good Salary and some bonus." ((in 87 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Fannie Mae according to real employee reviews?

"There is the sense by many Fannie Mae'ers that there is no life after Fannie Mae so most put up with inefficiencies and poor management." ((in 118 reviews)); "Slow to no job growth, bad managers, very unorganized, "hybrid" but actually remote" ((in 88 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs come in dribs and drabs has made an anxious workforce." ((in 54 reviews)); "A lot of mediocre to bad leadership in middle management and below." ((in 45 reviews)); "Morale is low" ((in 24 reviews))

What are employees saying about Fannie Mae layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Fannie Mae layoffs and their outlook for job security at Fannie Mae in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Fannie Mae locations?

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Fannie Mae reviews

3.5

53% would recommend to a friend

(2,561 total reviews)

Peter Akwaboah

38% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

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Fannie Mae has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,561 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fannie Mae employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews

4.0

Oct 29, 2008

What's going on?

Financial analyst

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CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great place and people, work life balance, good area to work in. The people are very intelligent and professional and most don't try to cut your throat and would rather work with you than against you in completing tasks. Managers and Directors are top notch, very interested in your professional growth.

Cons

Lack of clarity on future role with company, nobody knows what our mission is anymore, bracing for layoffs. Even though there is an open door policy,there isn't a very flat landscape when it comes to communicating thoughts and ideas with upper management. Cafeteria is also a plus but the lack of other options takes away from that.

4.0

Oct 3, 2008

Fannie Mae - the mission lives.

It manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Satisfaction in knowing that Fannie Mae does help people own homes, strong benefits package (despite recent cuts), genuinely nice people in middle management and individual contributor ranks. Herb Allison seems to have a clue so far.

Cons

The current economic situation puts us in the crosshairs. Previous CEO exacerbated the effect of the housing downturn by increasing Fannie Mae exposure to non-performing Alt-A loans.

3.0

Sep 21, 2008

It's a nice place to work but there are issues to work on.

Unix administrator

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CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Before the recent nationwide meltdown in the financial industry, the company was stable, predictable and generous with salaries. Even now, while it may be risky to be in upper management, directors and lower levels are still secure & safe jobs.

Cons

Despite several years of attempted culture change, middle management is still obsessed with empire building rather than the well-being of their employees or the company. Change is resisted. Skills sharing between teams is actively discouraged even while lip service is paid to its importance. Technical skillsets are restricted to silos: network people will never be allowed to touch an operating system, UNIX people can't look at SAN systems, SAN people can't touch monitoring systems, etc..

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