Was 10% laid off at FHFA?

It’s no better for those of us at FHFA. Pulte is supremely unqualified.

Anonymous wrote:This is Freddie Mac

Amazing place to work hybrid. Unfortuately a new chairman is making it 5 days in office
Software developer 2
Current employee, more than 3 years
McLean, VA

Pros

Nice office
Easy commute as its going away from DC
Really good benefits
Good people

Cons

Contractors don't get to use office amenities
Subject to political theatre

Advice to Management

Fire the trust fund baby

Well they can't have it both ways.
I used to be a contractor at a place that differentiated like that. I was sure to maintain the divide because guess what. I also don't have the concept of limited PTO like employeess do and just billed hours worked. So I wasn't available lots of Fridays or other days for "HQ meetings with the contractor firm" or "training".

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no empathy and highly qualified and experienced employees are treated as if they are the mercury of the administration.
Read the above Glassdoor review and feed bad for those employees.
Advice to management- lay off and rip the bandage off.
I don’t think this advice is helpful and resolves the issue. Having a job is better than getting laid off. I know keeping the govt job is very hard these days, but we all need the money and the job, right?

Well person above who posted I feel is a married women who moved out of state and had kids since Fannie went 100 percent WFH in Feb 2020. Fannie Mae is very generous with severance and if laid off get unemployment.

She does not want to move back to the area after being gone 5 years as expensive and put down roots elsewhere. But wont quit as salary high and a ton of severance on table.

So she is hoping to get laid off. They pay people like 4 weeks a year severance plus a prorated bonus plus she will get unemployment.

If lets say she is there 12 years. And gets a 120K bonus (not uncommon) If laid off 6/30 she gets a years pay plus 60K prorated bonus plus six months unemployment. She rather get that than actually have to go back full time .

But I think the point of 100 percent return to office is to bet people like her to quit. It is a game. To be honest Fannie/Freddie/CSS has way more ex-employees than current employees who live in the DMV area. Me personally I don't see risk to losing people.

Makes sense. People who have abused remote work by moving to a cheaper state and still getting NOVA salaries, need to quit. They need to find a job in their state.
Let the locals secure the jobs and be in the office 5 days a week. I would lay off the remote employees first…the ones who do not live in DMV and can’t come to the office

That didn't happen. The government was checking IP addresses and asking managers to confirm the locations of their staff. Everyone was receiving the correct pay for their physical location. The official DC commuting area is huge, it goes to the edge of Richmond, captures some of the Eastern Shore, and southern PA, and includes seven counties in West Virginia.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no empathy and highly qualified and experienced employees are treated as if they are the mercury of the administration.
Read the above Glassdoor review and feed bad for those employees.
Advice to management- lay off and rip the bandage off.
I don’t think this advice is helpful and resolves the issue. Having a job is better than getting laid off. I know keeping the govt job is very hard these days, but we all need the money and the job, right?

Well person above who posted I feel is a married women who moved out of state and had kids since Fannie went 100 percent WFH in Feb 2020. Fannie Mae is very generous with severance and if laid off get unemployment.

She does not want to move back to the area after being gone 5 years as expensive and put down roots elsewhere. But wont quit as salary high and a ton of severance on table.

So she is hoping to get laid off. They pay people like 4 weeks a year severance plus a prorated bonus plus she will get unemployment.

If lets say she is there 12 years. And gets a 120K bonus (not uncommon) If laid off 6/30 she gets a years pay plus 60K prorated bonus plus six months unemployment. She rather get that than actually have to go back full time .

But I think the point of 100 percent return to office is to bet people like her to quit. It is a game. To be honest Fannie/Freddie/CSS has way more ex-employees than current employees who live in the DMV area. Me personally I don't see risk to losing people.

Makes sense. People who have abused remote work by moving to a cheaper state and still getting NOVA salaries, need to quit. They need to find a job in their state.
Let the locals secure the jobs and be in the office 5 days a week. I would lay off the remote employees first…the ones who do not live in DMV and can’t come to the office

This is Freddie Mac

Amazing place to work hybrid. Unfortuately a new chairman is making it 5 days in office
Software developer 2
Current employee, more than 3 years
McLean, VA

Pros

Nice office
Easy commute as its going away from DC
Really good benefits
Good people

Cons

Contractors don't get to use office amenities
Subject to political theatre

Advice to Management

Fire the trust fund baby

Anonymous wrote:There is no empathy and highly qualified and experienced employees are treated as if they are the mercury of the administration.
Read the above Glassdoor review and feed bad for those employees.
Advice to management- lay off and rip the bandage off.
I don’t think this advice is helpful and resolves the issue. Having a job is better than getting laid off. I know keeping the govt job is very hard these days, but we all need the money and the job, right?

Well person above who posted I feel is a married women who moved out of state and had kids since Fannie went 100 percent WFH in Feb 2020. Fannie Mae is very generous with severance and if laid off get unemployment.

She does not want to move back to the area after being gone 5 years as expensive and put down roots elsewhere. But wont quit as salary high and a ton of severance on table.

So she is hoping to get laid off. They pay people like 4 weeks a year severance plus a prorated bonus plus she will get unemployment.

If lets say she is there 12 years. And gets a 120K bonus (not uncommon) If laid off 6/30 she gets a years pay plus 60K prorated bonus plus six months unemployment. She rather get that than actually have to go back full time .

But I think the point of 100 percent return to office is to bet people like her to quit. It is a game. To be honest Fannie/Freddie/CSS has way more ex-employees than current employees who live in the DMV area. Me personally I don't see risk to losing people.

There is no empathy and highly qualified and experienced employees are treated as if they are the mercury of the administration.
Read the above Glassdoor review and feed bad for those employees.
Advice to management- lay off and rip the bandage off.
I don’t think this advice is helpful and resolves the issue. Having a job is better than getting laid off. I know keeping the govt job is very hard these days, but we all need the money and the job, right?

Apr 11, 2025
Once was great, has gone to crap
Operations engineer
Current employee, more than 5 years
Reston, VA

Pros
8% 401k match, 25+ days vacation and encouraged to use it, everyone is very competent and smart, leadership tries to work with you for any conflicts.

Cons

Ever since we came under the total and utter control of Bill Pulte from FHFA, the company has absolutely gone down the toilet. This used to be a company that valued flexibility and family time, but now they’ve forcibly adopted the Trump agenda of being all gung-ho about working from an office even though it’s half as productive and half as profitable as working remotely. We all had to upheave our lives, going from a 100% remote company to a 100% RTO model due to Trump and Pulte’s agenda, in LESS than 3 days. A big portion of us live out of state and have had to organize child care and paid for inflated, last-minute hotel and transportation costs (OUT OF POCKET by the way) just to satisfy the ignorant Trump administration. Our senior leaders have done absolutely nothing to reassure us that things will get easier, ie they haven’t opened the regional offices and stopped approving remote work requests. They fired 200+ employees for “fraud” without due process or proof, to satisfy DOGE (trump, again!). Low-level leaders (managers) are trying as best they can to work with us, but we’re at the mercy of Putle and Trump because of the hostile takeover that has come upon us.

Advice to Management

Lay us off already. Rip the bandaid off.

You have to prove you work there and only valid employees or ex employees can post a review.

It is like LinkedIn I assume everyone has an account.

It is where you get to see actual validated employee reviews. I always go there to check out company when on job hunt. It also tells benefits and salaries

Anonymous wrote:aren't accounts free?

Yes, but like PP said, they ask you to post info about your own job. Not a big deal as you could just make something up.

aren't accounts free?

Anonymous wrote:Glassdoor requires an account doesn’t it? What type of thing are they saying? Dirt about the agencies and companies, or just complaining about the layoffs?

yes this. I thought you needed an account. I recall a snarky message like "if you want to read about companies you have to contribute your own information, salary, knowledge, etc." And I peaced out since I don't have relevant info to share.

Glassdoor requires an account doesn’t it? What type of thing are they saying? Dirt about the agencies and companies, or just complaining about the layoffs?

Been reading glass door reviews of places like Fannie and Freddie sorted by most recent.

It is getting totally unhinged the last two weeks. Almost like a E True Hollywood story or a Dateline episode.

Pick your agency or GSE doing Layoffs or RTO, get some popcorn and read the latest reviews.

You will thank me.