Over-Promise, Under-Deliver - Anonymous employee Expeditors Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Freedom and encouragement to learn new things. -Decent for entry-level experience.

Cons

-Lack of consistency. Expeditors touts the fact that every branch is its own mini business but is this a good thing? Half of every day is spent asking other branches/employess to fix their mistakes because they don't understand the process. -Low pay. Get paid an hourly wage that is less than what fast-food employees make, with the promise that the monthly bonus will make up for it. It doesn't. No wonder the processes are so inconsistent and inefficient. You get what you pay for: low-salary workers with low-level competency and LAZINESS. -Morale-crushing indecisiveness. This may vary from branch to branch, but everything moves slow. Plan to move up? Be prepared to wait 2 years for the promotion even though it was supposed to happen within the next couple months. Management covers their tracks by never outright promising anything--just leading employees on endlessly. -Management is a total boy's club. Are you smart and diligent? Doesn't matter. Managers are overall not well-educated. They just schmoozed to get where they are. -Nepotism. -Dress code. I'm not opposed to wearing a suit, but pay me a salary deserving of a suit. This is misleading to prospective hires who think they may make a decent living here.

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 1, 2026
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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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