Pros
You’ll work with some of the greatest people in the industry at the local level. Grandfathered medical benefits and pension are huge advantages. Externally FM has a superior product
Cons
I’ll start by addressing the vaccine mandate… FM is a private company, they are free to do what they want. That being said, if you’re someone that has spent the last 10 years + with this company thinking you’d spend the rest of your career here the way it was handled will certainly make you rethink that. It lacked compassion, transparency, and for certainly for many… business sense. You didn’t just let go long term colleagues and friends, you left operations short handed picking up the pieces. This is a tough pill to swallow when you feel like you’ve traded competitive pay for stability and a company that cares about the employee. On the business side, it seems like we leverage engineering expertise less and less. Engineers no longer seem to be trusted to apply judgement, which leaves underwriting in a silo making the judgment calls. It used to be a team collaboration… Change implementation is a terrible mess. The agile concept of minimally viable product is a disaster for operations. It leaves us in a continuous environment of change constantly trying to catch up to the level of productivity that we had prior to the latest “agile” change. We have become the bloated multi level company that we used to pride ourselves in not being. Employee morale within the operations has never been lower. Upper Management seems disconnected from this as we see constant internal updates congratulating that group for a recent promotion thanks to a new position or business group being created.