Expeditors reviews

Honestly, the downsides are only downsides for those who like casual atmospheres. EI is in business to make money. The expectations are high. So if having casual Friday's are important to you then this is not the right place. I've seen a number of people leave in the past 12 years who thought the grass was greener and most of them quickly found out it is not. Only one of the maybe dozen or so people I knew well left and is still at the company they left for. That's when the appreciation of what EI has to offer settles in. I'm speaking mainly from a branch operations perspective in the midwest. It's funny but it seems like 90% of the EI bashers on ANY public forum tend to be Corporate IT people.

-If you're not working in corporate, you generally start at $30,000 as a customer representative. In corporate, subtantially higher closer to $40,000 or more -Paid by the hour, not salary unless you're in corporate -Pay raise per year is $1.50 -Starts with 2 weeks vacation time, does not roll over. You get 2 weeks of vacation after 5+ years. -The paycheck does not reflect closely match the amount of work you do -Company is not doing well (check their historical stock price) and will fire employees instead of laying off to avoid bad pr and severance packages -Although the company has an "open door" policy (see Pros), the mindset of "big boss, small employee" mentality still remains -Slow to innovate -Has a heavy political atmosphere in upper management - Upper management does not have much transparency toward employees -Training is a joke, you do required 52 hr workbook training which trains you on a theoretical processes in the logistics industry but in reality it doesn't help at all. People rush through it as fast as possible to meet their requirement -Expeditors claim to emphasize on employee personal growth but there aren't any tangible, specific measures -Average turnover for the non-managerial employee at Expeditors is 3 years -No HR department, is quite terrible at scheduling interviews