Expeditors - not a place to look for in career growth or for a decent salary - Ocean Export Agent Expeditors Employee Review

1.0
Nov 9, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

-Company has an "open door" policy where you can meet your supervisor, manager, or district manager at anytime w/o "repercussions." -Very nice health care plan

Cons

-If you're not working in corporate, you generally start at $30,000 as a customer representative. In corporate, subtantially higher closer to $40,000 or more -Paid by the hour, not salary unless you're in corporate -Pay raise per year is $1.50 -Starts with 2 weeks vacation time, does not roll over. You get 2 weeks of vacation after 5+ years. -The paycheck does not reflect closely match the amount of work you do -Company is not doing well (check their historical stock price) and will fire employees instead of laying off to avoid bad pr and severance packages -Although the company has an "open door" policy (see Pros), the mindset of "big boss, small employee" mentality still remains -Slow to innovate -Has a heavy political atmosphere in upper management - Upper management does not have much transparency toward employees -Training is a joke, you do required 52 hr workbook training which trains you on a theoretical processes in the logistics industry but in reality it doesn't help at all. People rush through it as fast as possible to meet their requirement -Expeditors claim to emphasize on employee personal growth but there aren't any tangible, specific measures -Average turnover for the non-managerial employee at Expeditors is 3 years -No HR department, is quite terrible at scheduling interviews

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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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