Senior leadership is squandering years of employee goodwill in months over petty return-to-office silliness - IS Project Manager Expeditors Employee Review

3.0
Oct 12, 2021
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Pros

- Teammates and team managers are largely great people. Lower level leadership really cares and tries to do the right thing. - In some roles, willing to take flyers on less-traditional tech hires and train them - No-layoff policy in recessions. - 3 weeks vacation on day 1. - Solid work-life balance. Compressed work weeks often available and 40 hour weeks are largely the rule. - Management ranks are largely promoted from within, if you want to stay with the company.

Cons

- Technologists ultimately being led by logisticians who don't always seem to get technologists or software development. Senior management won't let go of the old-style top-down mentality, even when it hinders the Agile transformation or ultimately hurts the company, i.e. the 2021 return-to-office. - Tech stack is very modern in some areas, but leads to a very dated COBOL back end. - Dress code, if that's an issue for you. - Pays below industry average

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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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