Expeditors Software Developer II reviews

- not competitive in salary, benefits, bonuses, etc. We are not only paid much lower in salary, but all other non cash benefits that we are missing out on add up. However, vacation for new employees has been recently bumped to 3 weeks which is a good sign. - no perks. We have a small lunchroom recently renovated (no TVs and not enough to fit employees at peak lunch time), and free ORCA cards. That's about it. - high turnover in the IS dept. Many know this as a starter company, and will leave as soon as they realize they can do better (< 3 years) - the work isn't exciting. You should know this working for a company when you're building software for internal employees at a non tech company - many stuck in the "old ways" and not willing to keep up, or would rather hand-roll software solutions than look to outside sources. We've been been in a migration effort for many years. There's been some improvement recently, probably due to the new CEO, but they're gonna be playing catch up for a long time.

The company culture is very corporate, which is a con, according to everybody else I've talked to. Initially, I wasn't a huge fan but now I've gotten used to it and have come to appreciate the experience of being dressed on par with the CEO any day of the week. You could be in a room with business analysts, developers, upper-management, or executives and be treated with the same respect as any other employee, simply because of how you're dressed. Lastly, there are many employees who have made up their minds that Expeditors is the company that they'd like to retire at, which can lead to a lack of motivation or creativity in the long term.