FedEx reviews

Required training session, either live or taught on-line, are often a big time-sink. This, particularly when the school session occurs during a workday. Project deadlines always loom, so the required training classwork... in a live classroom setting... can materially eat-away at a productive day. The on-line based training programs, particularly with database management, can be very arduous... the text-based product MUST BE VERY CLOSELY READ in order to move-up to the next module. A live training class would offer hands-on help quickly vs. a website-session that might require the student hours to catch-on to the same topic. However, the live classes are traditionally only during the workday. I suggest offering evening and weekend "live" training sessions... particularly when it involves learning how to effectively use powerful but high degree of difficulty tools... like SQL.

Since most people dont leave FedEx after joining, promotions become more difficult. Although the company has a policy for promoting from within, it is highly competitive and almost like an internal job application rather than an automatic promotion based on superior performance. Due to this, your "interviewing skills" and ability to "sell yourself" become as important, if not more, than the job skills necessary to suceed in the new position. Not a bad thing necessarily.