Pros
- PTO policy, you start with 18 days up to 28 when you have been serving for 10+ years, on top of that company closes for 2 weeks on Christmas. - Great company for seniors: many departments look like the star-ship Enterprise at "Star Trek VI: the undiscovered country", just on the verge of retirement. Quite a generous 401K where the company will fund a 3.5% on a DRA, even if you don't contribute... catch 22 is that you need to be there 6 years to have it all vested, great if you are in your mid 50's looking for your last job. - very favorable to veterans, many managers served in the armed forces and will definitely pick a veteran above anyone else - Cubicles are pretty big - Great for women, FNC support all the affirmative action programs, WIN and so forth, very likely you will get hired or promoted over your male counterpars because of it - Great company for managers: pretty much all your job will be making reports for Japan and approving travel reports, the real mid term and strategic decisions are made by the Japanese overloards, very few managers actually have the power to make any significant decission or take any risk - Gym is quite nice, new and cheap plus some trails to run around the campus - Overall very stable, there are many many old timers that have been 15+ or 20+ years in the company - Good internship program, although several interns end up being sons/daughters or brothers/sisters or senior managers - Great company for sales managers, you don't have bonus cap, so theoretically, you could make many thousands in commissions... although sales overall have been going down for years
Cons
- Bureaucracy and politics have a new dimension as not only you have to deal with local management but also report to the real managers: Fujitsu Japan. - Over-reporting, many times I felt like "office space", having to report and explain the same thing to 4-5 different managers, plus the joy of calls with Japan late in the afternoon to go over the same things. - Too "many chiefs for very Indians", the amount of VPs and directors is incredible, although in reality, most directors would be managers in other companies and most VPs would have the equivalent title of Director anywhere else. - 'Good ole boys' company, if you have an old timer buddy from FNC or Nortel that work here, maybe a great place to be, not such a great place if you actually try to bring any kind of idea/method of working and get it implemented and approved throughout all the red tape - Promotions and merit increases are based on who you know and political alliances, otherwise the joke around is that merit increases are "inflation adjustments" - There is no training program for individuals, sometimes there will be a training course, usually given by someone who used to work at FNC and started a training company or is best buddies with one of the VPs, and there will be some high level 1-2 course where 20-30 people will attend, that's all. - Ship is sinking, decreasing sales, increasing amount of lay offs (Pearl River office was just shut down), new products are not selling well at all yet (both HW and SW)