Old school, stagnant company that isn't willing or able to adjust with current market trends. - CHQ Employee Expeditors Employee Review

2.0
Jun 30, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits. Located in downtown Seattle. Top company in the industry. Pay for your orca card (that's a benefit?)

Cons

Soul crushing culture. Feels like the founders read a business textbook once in the early 80s, copied the organizational flow chart and said 'we're good'. Can only have 2 personal items at your desk. As almost every con review says - Low pay. Promise incentives, bonuses and pay raises and don't deliver. (Especially during hiring process). Favoritism, nepotism and office politics run rampant. Outdated tech, systems and strategies. Tons of dead weight hanging on in the EDI/tech/system development side. Dress code makes no sense for 90% of positions. (In CHQ, Devs, analysts and their managers stare at screens and lync all day. There is no customer facing experience, yet you'll be sent home if you're not in a suit). I see alot of smart and educated young people come in with tons of energy, enthusiasm, and drive only to be boxed in, crushed and broken within about 3 or 4 months. Middle managment is just a collection of people that didn't quit. Not close to the best, brightest or most able. They care more about how you look, and what you say than the product you turn out, how hard you work or how happy customers/sales/clients are. The vibe, lighting, desks, etc  all feel like you're working in some warehouse in Cleveland and not in downtown Seattle. When the CEO of a fortune 500 company doesn't have a college degree, I think that should be a red flag. Some amazing people in upper management, but most are just tools in suits.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

good environment employee engagement good industry experince

Cons

higher pay would be good but good benefits and time off

2.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Stability and job security, formerly. Compressed work weeks and work-life balance, formerly. A 47-year no-layoff policy tested in two recessions and a pandemic. Formerly. Now? Well, all of those are gone, so it's hard to really cite anything other than that there's health care and the paychecks don't bounce.

Cons

The same stuff that's always been there, for one. Strict dress code. Dated systems they're trying to run away from as fast as humanly possible. Strict in-office culture with limited WFH. Little to no upward mobility; most senior management has been there for 20+ years and when someone does get promoted, the remaining jobs often seem to magically go to their buddies without getting bid. A complete inability to manage and coordinate anything effectively amongst multiple teams, which apparently is going to be somehow solved by laying off almost all the project/program managers. Oh, and on top of all that? Now, the new regime will lay you off, but first they'll gaslight you and claim the no-layoff policy never existed. Then they'll claim the team managers (who they conveniently also laid off) did the rankings that determined who got cut. Then they'll put a bunch of the survivors into a "bootcamp" and then make them interview to keep their jobs.

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