FedEx reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(35,542 total reviews)
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Raj Subramaniam

55% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

FedEx has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 35,542 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FedEx employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transporte y logística industry (3.5 stars).

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36K reviews
2.0
Jan 25, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

You're rarely expected to work long hours, unless something blows up. Fairly competitive salaries in an inexpensive location. Keep your head down and your mouth shut and you'll likely stay employed, unless you just happen to be selected in the next layoff lottery. Great place to work if you're female or a minority; corporate policies are very vigilant about discrimination due to race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

Cons

Morale is pretty bad these days, given recent layoffs (which seemed pretty random) and last year's pay cuts. Lots of corporate Rah! Rah! marketing programs, emails, posters which for most of us actually are very counter-productive. For the 12th time in 13 years FedEx was voted in Forbes' Top 100 Places to Work. The primary reason given that FedEx is so fantastic: this year we get back half of the 401K match they took away with our pay cuts last year. They had just beefed up the match the year before to compensate us for ditching the pension! Depending on where you work, you may be plagued with endless meetings. Very often meetings are held not to get input from participants but to disseminate information that could be easily distributed with an email. There is little room for advancement, in particular technical advancement. The Advisor positions which were created years back might have been used for a more advanced technical position, at least in technical groups, but they are primarily political in nature. Every 'Principal' position - the highest level non-management job - was filled by the buddy system, which is rampant in my particular org. There is a bit of a hivemind here, and individual thinkers are unlikely to prosper. Incompetent and toeing the party line will get you farther than making waves for improvement. Mediocrity is rewarded, while innovative thinking is a crapshoot. There are way too many corporate initiatives, and the company is forever paying some consulting firm gadzillions of dollars to recommend one or the other course of action, but we rarely have follow-through. It keeps these initiatives from doing any real harm, but it wastes a lot of resources along the way.

3.0
Jan 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The brand is strong and well respected in the community.

Cons

Too many changes... contractor/management issues... company restructuring.

5.0
Jan 21, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Awesome benefits for a part time job (Health care, dental, and vision) -Start with 3 weeks of paid vacation plus all holidays -TUITION REIMBURSEMENT ($3000 per yer) -Routine M-F schedule, shifts are early morning or evening so works with school -Good retirement plan (pension and 401K) -Many opportunities to pursue a salary position if you have a degree -Easy to transfer throughout the US

Cons

-Job can be boring and mundane -Most salary positions are in Memphis -Physical work, so there is a risk for injury

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