We're not in the 1960s anymore - Anonymous employee ShipStation Employee Review

2.0
Jan 15, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Senior most execs on the business side have incredible insight into the Shipping and Logistics industry. Worth working with them and learning from them. CEO is full of good vision and knowledge as well and is truly sincere to the vision of the company. That alone is worth learning. But it doesn't excuse their behavior otherwise.

Cons

Stay as far away from Engineering as you can. The people in leadership in this company has not changed, so all of this still applies. The engineers themselves were pretty good but the management is the sleaziest I have met. Lies were just a way of life - there is no such thing as honest communication. And they promote those that can follow this 'wink, wink, nod, nod' system of communication. Racism, sexism are all very much be in vogue here. When interviewing candidates that had foreign accents, they (engineering leadership) wrote them off simply because of the accent. They couldn't be bothered with the qualifications or capabilities - the candidates were often superior to anyone else who had been interviewed. The whole place is a white boys club. The office is in the same building as "Kendra Scott" and you can sometimes hear some of the senior executives comment on the models that walk to their offices. Questions like "How were the girls on the beach?" can openly be heard from executive team members. And their buddies in the parent company are no different - they make fun of their wives and other women publicly when they come to visit too. Since the company is literally printing money, they feel they are above standards for decency. No one questions any of this.

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5.0
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Pros

Every single person that works here is super nice and welcoming.

Cons

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2.0
Apr 16, 2026
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Pros

The work from home option is great, they do provide free snacks and drinks and a catered lunch once a week. Sometimes the workload can be really light. Most of the people working there were great

Cons

Owned by private equity, so the annual mass layoffs are very real, They will mass fire people and then outsource the jobs over seas. Expectation of taking ownership of projects without equitable pay for the responsibilities taken on. Sometimes the workload can be unbearable. I worked there when it was still a startup company, So I witnessed the company culture dive off of a cliff after the PE acquisition. Upper management is very fake and everything is about pushing more and more sales. The quality of the product has deteriorated, while more features have been added, there are more bugs and less people to fix them, all while the company continues to raise their prices. Managers tend to be promoted or moved from different sister companies, because they are "good managers" but then they know nothing about the platform they are managing, so they end up not being able to assist the employees they are managing

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