Great place to work if everything fits right - EDI Systems Analyst Expeditors Employee Review

3.0
Oct 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to start a career right out of school. Work/Life balance is fantastic. The role of a systems analyst can be really low stress. Flexible schedule (9/80s or 4/10s) after 60 days. If you're a good analyst, with a good supervisor, and show you're capable, compensation can be very competitive. Analysts are given a mentor to assist them with learning the position and help get them up to speed. Can have lots of autonomy in both daily work and schedule. Some teams have a great knowledge-base and very collaborative.

Cons

Expeditors is extremely inconsistent among teams. Some teams are amazing and others will make you want to quit. In a 3 year span I had 4 different supervisors, one of which made me want to quit. Compensation to start is nothing special for an Analyst position in Seattle, but does ramp up in a few years. If you don't have a good supervisor/manager that believes in your skills, you will most likely find very little career direction. Some teams hoard knowledge and there is a huge skill gap between associate analysts and level II and III. Some teams have very little trust of new employees and only give them a few chances to succeed before giving up. There is not a lot of opportunities for lateral moves. Once you have a specific role, hiring managers are very reluctant to hire from within. There is a stigma that when you want to experience a new role/change of pace that 'you're only looking at 'new position' because you're trying to get out of 'current position'. This is extremely frustrating and will drive people away.

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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
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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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