Expeditors reviews

It's a cult - IT vp actually said that to fit in here you have to drink the Kool-Aid. Every thing about the place is homegrown and they think it's an advantage. It's a technological backwater and there is no technical career path- you have to become a manager to make any money. "Fitting in" is extremely important. My favorite thing is that having a sense of humor is a corporate value and I've never worked in a more opressive environment.

- Dress code has only just moved up to the 90s. Prior, women were still required to wear nylons, up until about 2015 or so. Men were still required to wear ties until late 2021, when they started dragging people back to the office. - Very little buy-in on new technology. I know playing catch-up can be hard, but it often feels like there's outright resistance to the idea of keeping up with modern tech. Still using Skype in 2022-- why?? There's Avaya, Google Workspace, Slack, I'd even suggest Microsft Teams over Skype for Business. - Pay well below average for the area. Even with yearly raises, with a good supervisor who'll fight for you (if you're so lucky), you'll never be making what you're worth. - In response to employees wanting more flexibility with work-from-home, they instituted a 26-days per year policy that you have to schedule like vacation time. Sounds nice on the tin, but previously, it was team manager discretion, so it's a step back in terms of actually being flexible. - Refusal to embrace remote work, citing that in-person interaction is important to our "culture"... while simultaneously opening satellite offices, so the likelihood of your team ever meeting in one place ever again is very low. Come sit in a cramped cubicle so you can have Zoom meetings! - In addition to the above, Expeditors had amazing profits while everyone was working from home due to COVID, proving that remote work can be viable and even beneficial. A full return to office was still mandated. It feels like there's a positive COVID notification every week. - It's all about who you know and who you can make friends with. If you have connections in senior management, you'll do fine. Upset someone in senior management, and your life will become much harder. There's also an "old boys club" mentality still very prevalent across the organization. - They tout "advance from within" but again it goes back to who you know and who you're friends with. - Reorganization was a farce and all it did was create more confusion. Poorly communicated, poorly executed. They tried to model it after other companies, except they picked-and-chose just the parts they like and discarded the rest... but the reason it works for those guys is because of the ENTIRE system and not just the parts you like. - Diversity is practically non-existent. Very few women in upper management, very few POC across all departments.