diff --git a/R/methods_fixest.R b/R/methods_fixest.R
index 83cd8c444..8f02249b1 100644
--- a/R/methods_fixest.R
+++ b/R/methods_fixest.R
@@ -78,11 +78,13 @@ standard_error.fixest <- function(model, vcov = NULL, vcov_args = NULL, ...) {
     SE <- as.vector(stats$se)
     # sometimes, the correct SEs are in the `coeftable`. In this case,
     # SE from summary have different length
-    stats <- model$coeftable
-    SE_ct <- .safe(as.vector(stats[, "Std. Error"]))
-    # if this fails extract from summary
-    if (!is.null(SE_ct) && length(SE_ct) < length(SE)) {
-      SE <- SE_ct
+    if (length(SE) != nrow(params)) {
+      SE <- NULL
+      stats <- model$coeftable
+      SE_ct <- .safe(as.vector(stats[, "Std. Error"]))
+      if (!is.null(SE_ct) && length(SE_ct) == nrow(params)) {
+        SE <- SE_ct
+      }
     }
   } else {
     # we don't want to wrap this in a tryCatch because the `fixest` error is
@@ -91,6 +93,11 @@ standard_error.fixest <- function(model, vcov = NULL, vcov_args = NULL, ...) {
     SE <- sqrt(diag(V))
   }
 
+  if (is.null(SE)) {
+    SE <- NA
+    insight::format_alert("Could not extract standard errors. Please file an issue at https://github.com/easystats/parameters/issues/")
+  }
+
   .data_frame(
     Parameter = params$Parameter,
     SE = SE