Do not recommend - Socially insular and repressive company - Senior Technical Manager Expeditors Employee Review

1.0
Dec 18, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The only good things are paychecks show up on time, and the office environment is regularly cleaned.

Cons

Mormon religious values drive Expeditors' "culture". Entirely based on a conservative dress code. In offices where no clients are allowed IT employees are expected to wear business suits. All meetings are conducted via video even when in the same office. Yet technical employees are still required to work in the office, no working from home, with an exception based on years of service. Expeditors management fires without warning. They claim they don't lay people off - easy to do if they just fire people without cause instead. Their management is old fashioned with several layers of managers who are just highly placed Admins. Their technical leadership can not code at all with little to no understanding of technology. (no HTML CSS JavaScript C# C++ nothing) Medical insurance does not kick in until after a *full* month of service, so in the enforced work-in-person scenario when you get infected by COVID, contract a flu, or get a cold, break your leg on their stairs, etc you are on your own for doctors expenses. Disabled people, women, and people of color may find the exclusionary bar raised higher than normal here. Number of years with the company, not skills, not ideas, not intelligence, not work product are what is valued. I was raised as a Morman's second family and if I had known this was a Morman company I would never have accepted any job with this firm. Smart people, people with ideas, people of other religions, do not bother to apply at Expeditors.

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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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