Expeditors reviews

Expeditors policies for PTO are antiquated. Maximum of 5 days of PTO the first year, 2 weeks for years 3-5. 3 weeks of paid time off aren't awarded until an employee's 6th year. No flexible schedules, absolutely no telecommuting, eating lunch at your desk is prohibited, salaries are about 15-20% below market. There is a dress code, and that dress code includes a mandatory tie. There is no HR department at Expeditors. If you have a question about your benefits or a policy, you must go through your immediate manager whose knowledge of the matter may only amount to word of mouth. As a takeaway: turnover is high. If you track a group of 100 employees hired by Expeditors on a given date, in three years only 25 would still employed.

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.