programmer analyst

senior associate scientist

r&d engineer

procurement analyst

maintenance mechanic

FMC Corporation

My experience was far from positive. The work environment was extremely toxic, primarily due to poor management. There was a severe lack of communication from the leadership team, which led to constant confusion and frustration among employees. An employees that think they are managers barking orders when they aren’t. No respect and management is beyond non caring. Managers often played favorites, which created a divisive atmosphere and demotivated many of us. Additionally, there was little to no support for professional development or career growth. Constructive feedback was rarely given, and when it was, it often came across as condescending rather than helpful.Overall, the poor management practices here made it a challenging and stressful place to work. I would not recommend this company to anyone looking for a supportive and positive work environment. The work environment is far from ideal, primarily due to poor management and a lack of proper training. From the very beginning, it was clear that the leadership team was disorganized and unresponsive to employee needs. Despite being promised comprehensive training, I received little to no guidance on how to perform my job duties effectively. This lack of support made it incredibly challenging to meet expectations and contributed to a high level of stress and frustration among the team. When I approached management for assistance, my concerns were often dismissed or ignored, leaving me to figure things out on my own.
Furthermore, the overall work culture was toxic, with frequent miscommunication and a lack of transparency. The management's inability to provide clear direction and support created an environment where employees felt undervalued and overworked. This led to high turnover rates and low morale, making it difficult to maintain any sense of team cohesion.In summary, my experience here was beyond disappointing due to poor management , very unprofessional colleagues and inadequate training. I would not recommend this workplace to anyone seeking a supportive and well-organized work environment what so ever and the pay is beyond horrible for the working conditions you have to deal with modern day slavery at its finest . If you dare go to HR best believe your manager will have a bit of an attitude because of it! Save yourself the stress and just look for other companies! 

Very busy job and each day is different, many facets to the position, alot of time spent on calls, meeting with retailers, contract researchers, University personnel. Presenting information and planning research trials. Which made this job very interesting.
Too often the role turned into damage control, and getting pulled into projects with other groups, with no regard to existing workload.  Seemingly endless numbers of unnecessary conference calls. 

Like any other workforce, some absolutely stellar, intelligent, humble, individuals who believe in teamwork. Others who are all about themselves and only want to impress others, and upper management at any cost, which can be frustrating at times, as these people are viewed as leaders. 
 
Workplace culture is changing, it is all about from a more easy going relaxed culture, but now it is becoming increasingly a high pressure environment. 

Company values and policies are not always reflected in actions

Communication is chaotic  within the company, problems would arise as decisions would be made in a vacuum/rooted in ignorance when input from those who actually know what is going on, would have prevented or reduced issues. Other people rarely respond to emails.

Management is a mixed bag of solid, good natured, individuals, and too many of those who try to get by on the basis of being a “seasoned veteran” with little knowledge of how to build a functioning team.  Hard to plan, when decisions seem to change every week, and efforts are wasted.   Very few managers under 40 years old, and many (of all ages) have had little training as managers or more importantly as leaders.  

Can be difficult to advance within the company if desired, even when positions are vacant.  Typically outside people are hired, often overlooking deserving competent individuals within the company. 








In one hour I'd open up the store and set up the booth displays. There was a cafeteria next to me so we shared the kitchen when I baked the treats for the day. I had to stock up for the first rush hour and prepare the coffee's & tea's. After that, count my drawer and make sure that the cafeteria on the other side was presentable and stocked. There was always a line awaiting for the booth to open. So the rush started immediately. I have never seen only one person working and pretty much running a Starbucks but I did it. Though the cafeteria next to me held about 17-30 employees I was asked to help them when they got busy. None of the employees wanted to get trained for my side they said it was to hard, so I couldn't depend on them for help when it got busy.  Before I was hired I was told it would be me and another lady working, come to find out she was only there for two days to train me and I work the store by myself. It was a lot of work for one person to the point I wouldn't get a break until the next shift came in and it would run into overtime that the manager didn't want done. I asked for help and was told it was coming but come to find out it was a replacement for me because they didn't want to pay another person to work. The day I was fired "I was told they love my customer service and the customers love me, but they said this is a one person job and they are not hiring no help".

A good company that is badly manage by people that have been in lead positions in the shop floor for over 10+ years. During the three years that I worked there in the CDM department, there was poor planning, coordination, and execution in the shop floor. Everything was always considered hot, due to poor planning and not managing workorder projects efficiently. Only to find out mistakes were spotted and rework had to be done. In my time there, you can be there early and present everyday to work at CDM department, but the minute you bring up an idea or have a disagreement, you'll be the targeted and put on the list of people to layoff. CDM department never worked with your school schedule and always put work first and your life second. Certainly when I first got hired, one of FMC's Technologies golden rules was that I come first, work comes second, and the company makes sure to balance life out. The pay was ok starting out, but after being there for three years and being one of the techs that had more knowledge, than guys that been there over 6 years, I was underpaid and under appreciated. The times I brought up to my supervisor about an increase in pay, and going by the book to achieve it, I was turned down with nothing but excuses. A good company managed by a bunch of greedy lunatics that have no strive or clue in how to keep good talent, but certainly keep the bad ones. I would never go back to work for this company, let alone CDM department.

I am working as a travel nurse at a FMC clinic. The staff has bent over backward to make me feel welcome and to help me in any way they can. I did not receive any training with FMC, so it was difficult adjusting to the computer system without instruction. The patients have also been great. The one problem that I do have at this clinic is that Monday, Wednesday and Friday the staff is expected to work from 4:30 a.m. until 9 or 10 p.m. These days are killers! There are 3 shifts on these days and it is non stop running. Most days I don't even get a lunch. There is usually at least one call in a day, so besides our own work we are trying to fill that empty spot. I honestly don't feel they would have so many call ins if they would split those long days up. I have been told that they used to do it that way and everyone was much happier. After one of those long days, I can hardly function for 24-48 hours afterward. I have been there for 11 weeks and have had the same schedule since I started. I went to work this morning to find out that I wasn't supposed to be there. The schedule wasn't put out until Saturday afternoon, and no one bothered to call me and let me know I would not be working my regular days. This type of this is frustrating. These are the types of things that get the staff upset. The upper management doesn't seem to care how hard they work the staff. They have some very good employees, but they are loosing them left and right due to the schedule and treatment they receive. It's sad.

FMC Technologies is a great company for work/life balance as an experience professional. Before the downturn in the oilfield industry, this was a steady job to support a family, Managers are understanding of personal and family issues taking priority.

The Rotation Program for recent graduates was poorly managed. New engineers were assigned to the least desirable positions in the company with the promise that it would build experience and broaden company network. However, it becomes 2 or more years of unfulfilling work. The only true engineering work I performed at FMC Technologies was done on my days off out of a personal desire to address obvious needs in the shop.

The Rotation Program was not considerate of work/life balance. We were placed on rotating 12 hour shifts and often asked to come in on our days off for meetings, extra projects, or training classes. Individuals had no control over their work schedule.

Finally, the company has not responded to the downturn with the poise or planning I would have expected. They continued making offers to new graduates when there was too little work for current employees. These offers they waited to rescind until the beginning of the month in which these new graduates were expecting to begin work. I would have expected FMC Technologies to give them the courtesy of more time, even in current downturn.

A typical day started off with inspecting all of our equipment and performing daily logs and tests. Then it was hard labor and cleaning and rebuilding our customer's frac iron. The process started off with recieving the iron, via serial numbers for each piece, by inputting the numbers in our database. Then after creating a scope of work for the pieces, we can inspect, UT, MAG particle, rebuild, pressure test, paint, and final inspect the iron. I learned a lot about the frac industry and the major companies involved in it. I also learned a lot about hard work, dedication, and perserverence. My coworkers were easy to get along with, but not many like to work hard and earn a paycheck. The hardest part with my job was dissassembling trailers and units. Also dealing with the dissorganization of the shop, and the poor leadership at the shop. Our manager was never to be seen, and he had broken some of our companies policies that he was never dissaplined for. I think that lead to complacency of my coworkers and leadership. There aren't many things to enjoy about this job except the very rare barbeques we had. Most of the guys are jokers, so that made my days a little uplifted.

The market conditions impacted the structure of the organization and then the merger with Technip really changed the flavor of the company.  The company really needs to focus on what it wants to do - in other words, do they want to be an excellent engineering and field development company?  Then maybe the company should not try to manufacture sub-sea components and let the experts (other vendors) handle that.  People seem to be confused as to the direction of the company and people are losing confidence in management.  Moral has dropped.  The first 12 years, 5 stars, the two after that 3 stars, and the last year 2 stars and then the great layoff of 2018.  There have been a dozen layoffs which further added to the confusion and decline in morale.  Layoffs happen, but most companies have one big layoff and then people can move on with their lives.  But the layoffs seemed to hang over everyone's head for over two years and that didn't help people stay focused and be as productive as they should have been.

Management is very inexperienced, well educated (college degrees)in fields they don't work in, at the company, which leads to a lot of mistakes, slow growth to recovery, and compartmental structures. Their inability to openly communicate issues and track them through process monitors, is either arrogance or incompetence to understand they need training in their areas of concern and how to properly resolve complicated and changing issues. I have worked for a company that did many good things to keep themselves competitive, but this company makes money to spite themselves, they are in some aspects a jewelry department, with the additional mark up of the product. They are losing millions of dollars a year in wasted time, productivity, material mismanagement, and customer satisfaction. I have learned a lot in what not to do, through my observations and experience of working at this company. Due to the recent cuts in the last 2 years, people are shy of "rocking the boat" against the close nit mid-management that work with the Vice President and keeps him out of the loop.

Honestly never had issues with the team as far as drama or being thrown under the bus. The only fact that they shut down our division with no pre planning, just a quick call from Texas saying by the way your 2 million usd under so terminate all your guys in the field. But during the final meeting of our ends they have management out there making big mistakes that got them ran off and yet a selected few of us are getting calls to get paid more to come finish the job as contractors.
This is what to really consider is how reliable your leadership is and that the problem with all these companies is the leadership does not take 1 minute to meet you they just see your in the division struggling to make ends meet for the client and bam!.. your done. Than the shady thing is that they paid us more to not consult an attorney wow most of us on the team took the money because we have kids and needed it and they new that coming in. Well hope this gets through to you that it is a good fit or might not be so much anymore either way good luck with your career seeking adventure.

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