Expeditors reviews

There is no HR department. While this is very cool in some ways it is also a great weakness in terms of keeping employees happy. That's because the middle management has to fill in for what HR would normally do. If you're middle management, that can be a pain, and if you're a lower-level employee, that can REALLY be a pain, because, honestly, who wants to complain to their manager? The power dynamics are just too weird. The advantage of having an HR department is that it can be *impartial* in matters concerning worker happiness. A lot of management at Expeditors have no idea what it means to be a good manager, in terms of employee satisfaction. They are managers because they were good at their *previous* job as a non-manager employee. This means they have a solid understanding of the department they manage, but it doesn't mean they know anything about taking care of their employees. I've seen some pretty terrible people get promoted into management or even just team supervisors, and the people that work under them suffer for it.

Very low salary compared to market, lack of schedule flexibility, minimal sick time, lack of HR department means that accurate benefits information isn't always provided, training and expectations highly variable depending on team, stable but boring technologies (except when someone decides to swap out a bunch of architecture and you end up rewriting an application), massive disconnect between business and IT