Do Not Work In the Information Security Organization At Fannie Mae - Security Analyst Fannie Mae Employee Review

1.0
Mar 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Diverse environment Above average pay Opportunities for training

Cons

An unexperienced 33 year old CISO who fired all the best talent, plays favorites, and continually says one thing and does another. He first action as CISO was to fire 20% of the staff and then remove flexible work schedules. Right after the firing he bragged about how he was bringing in a cohort of individuals who were trained for 12 weeks by a staffing firm. He ended up firing several talented people because they came in after 9:30 even though they worked late. In one case he made one very respected employee fill a higher position with more work and the same pay for about a year only to give the position to someone else. It was chaotic and unpredictable with the CISO in charge. He is building a work environment where the entire security organization will be in a large open area which will be difficult for all the people that need to concentrate. It isn't a Wall Street brokerage after all. He also has talked about a shark tank for employees, where you have to pitch ideas to management, who will proceed to rip you apart. What kind of message does that send to employees when they are the prey and management are the sharks?

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

Do not work here unless you want carreer your growth to be kneecaped, as you will not be provided the tools you need to succeed. At the beginning of each month. They allow you about $50 worth of premium tokens and then and put you on a model from 10 months ago (in my case 5.o mini) so you're basically working in the past. It's frustrating to, after the first few days of the month, do everything 10x slower. It's indicitive of a poorly run company, as AI enabled me to increase my output 10x, and they intentionally throttle that growth. Beauracratic nightmare. Work for somewhere that enables you to do your job well. That allows you to keep up with current tools.

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