Run screaming! I lost ten years here! - Software Development Engineer In Test Expeditors Employee Review

2.0
Mar 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

They will keep you employed forever, in exchange for staying in 1955 and actively rejecting any tech advances.

Cons

This is an insanely backwards company. For example it was a FIGHT for female employees to not have to wear pantyhose, even with pants. This was in 2014. Women have exactly ZERO opportunity to advance in any managerial level, which I could clearly see even having no interest in it myself. They still have not ditched the waterfall tech pattern; they love to say they are agile but that just means they lie to the business owners as we are not even VAGUELY agile. Every single person I worked with under 40 quit before I did. If you love working with 20 yr old incredibly poorly written spaghetti code, by all means apply! Because they will never change it; for example, they now have a significant dependency on COBOL...and no devs who know COBOL.

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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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