Good Company For College Graduates For A Year - Anonymous employee Expeditors Employee Review

1.0
Jan 9, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are new to the industry Expeditors has good training programs. If you are a college graduate you will get good work experience and lots of hours.

Cons

Work/Life balance is more like work/work balance. The hours they push should be illegal. If I could I would put negative stars for the Work/Life balance. Management is sedimentary and old fashioned although very young in age. Management lacks maturity and are untouchable. If you don't get promoted in the first year you won't or the promotions will come very slowly. Pay is low compared to the rest of the industry unless you make it to top-tier manager. Formal attire required every day. Many people lose vacation days every year. All vacation days do not roll and drop at the end of the year. Branch compared to corporate does not share the same culture or work hours. Lack of career progression or formal career path. Lots of talk of opportunities but very few actually exist. Cheerleading by management but nothing to cheer about.

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Pros

good environment employee engagement good industry experince

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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