Engineering Specialist - Engineering Specialist FM Employee Review

4.0
21 Feb 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good corporoate repuations. Career employment and job stability. Good advancement potential for engineers. Good technical resources and support. A time-tested (175 years) business model of providing loss prevention engineering with insurance coverage.

Cons

Technical advancement within the field engineering and technical sector is limited when compared to other positons such as Account Engineering, Account Management, Underwriting. This company values their engineering staff, but the technical portion of FM Global is designed to cultivate engineers who are "generalists" of many subjects, with limited potenial for advancing too deeply into individual technical specialties. It is tough to get recognition for technical expertise in any subjects, beyond that of the FM Global Data Sheets, unless you are at the corporate headquarters. Very few of the technical managers are involved in outside technical or professional organizations, so your abilitie to use them as mentors is limited.

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5.0
17 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company, fantastic work life balance and people there are really nice

Cons

salary is okay but not the best compared with the other big tech companies

2.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Great business model at the foundation * Solid compensation program: Base salary + bonus * Sustained high profitability over the long term * Stable employement * Pension Plan

Cons

* Extremely hierarchical and regimented * Promotions based on favortism rather than true merit. Employees are precategorized and stigmatized on their ability for future career progression. * Extremely focused on metrics and internal objectives. This leads to box checking, cutting corners and bending rules to meet the numbers. * Extremely heavy workload. No work-life balance. * Management doesn't really incorporate employee feedback; they pretend to to check a box. * Quality of job suffers to keep up with quantity. Everything is becoming data driven and the data is often wrong. Enormous pressure to hit a button and accept at face value whatever the system spews out. * Our CEO builds fancy gold plated office buildings that aren't needed and pulled the plug on hybrid work to justify the investment in the real estate.

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