Global Account Manager - Anonymous employee Expeditors Employee Review

2.0
Feb 7, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great company if you're among the hand-picked for management, good pay ( office dependent! / great benefits. Was a nice place to start a career ( for training purposes ), but would leave as soon as path to advancement slows. Great money is available to those who produce in the form of bonus / commission, but only to Management positions. At one time this company was overflowing with talent and vigor.

Cons

POLITICS, POLITICS, POLITICS. You're either "in" or "out" ALL levels of this company are like a High school clique ( friends promote friends ). Acumen / talent not valued as it was even ten years ago, and the beaurocracy involved with even the most rudimentary functions has become more than cumbersome to navigate. District Managers have far, far too much power and the [power is unchecked and what happens / how employees are handled and valued in one office is vastly different than the next throughout the organization. DM's and Sales are the only groups expressly valued by Corporate. All about their "Culture" to the point of being self-blinded to profitable alternative business modalities. The Amway of Freight Forwarding. You'll learn to drink the Kool-Aid if you stay for any length of time.

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Cons

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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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