Expeditors Software Developer reviews

Full in office, no hybrid no flexible time. 26 days remote max. Buisness attire required - (No ties or suit jackets but come on. You should care about the work I produce not what I wear.) Office Politics in full swing - Few metrics to track your current performance means you better make friends who will talk you up and you better hope your manager likes you. Many people who have been there 15+ years. Might be considered good for knowledge but the ones I know are stuborn and inflexible in the way they do things. Tech stack is legacy java codebase, mostly just adding on to it rather than inventing new stuff. Systems mostly still on old windows servers that they still expand manually when at capacity rather than migrating to cloud. Terrible, "This is the way it's always been and this is how it works best" mentality among some people.

This criticism comes from a place of care. Expeditors is a good place to work, but it could be so much better. Senior leadership appears to be doing everything in their power to get rid of senior, experienced software developers, who WANT to work there and feel forced to leave, by making decisions like asking employees to keep their cameras on so management can tell if they're paying attention and dressed appropriately, not meeting industry standard compensation, refusing to be flexible, and requiring in-person work, even though teams have been successfully working remotely and, once back in offices, will now be spread across four locations. They tout their company values of excellence, integrity, and valuing their employees as their greatest assets, while actively thwarting those values and employees. They use the line, "we are a family" as an excuse to treat employees like children who require supervision, cannot be trusted, and work at the family business for less. They are inflexible when it comes to employees who need flexibility for family care, despite those employees going above and beyond to exceed expectations, and they punish managers who dare to make exceptions in order to keep those employees happy and on their team. Those remaining, who are competent, are now incredibly stressed with the added responsibilities of the senior personnel who have left, as well as trying to maintain systems while training the handful of new people the company has been able to hire. The software quality and feature release cadence is already beginning to suffer and will only get worse if change isn't made to retain and attract high quality talent. Job openings are not only remaining open for months, but receiving very few applicants, most of whom are un- or underqualified, especially for the more senior positions. More tech employees have quit (and taken jobs at companies that are meeting employee expectations) than have been hired. Part of this is the 'hot' job market, with job seekers more able to be choosey, but the company has refused to evolve to meet the changing expectations of tech employees and are losing out on talent because of it. When asked how the company is competing with other companies in the marketplace of software engineers, the line is, "We're not a tech company" and "We aren't competitors with X, Y, or Z company, so we don't pay those salaries and we don't have to accommodate working remotely". The littlest bit of research shows that the companies they *do* consider competitors are paying more and being more flexible with remote work for the same experience levels. For a company that purports to be a leader in the logistics technology industry, they aren't acting like it anymore. Expeditors has a ton of unrealized potential, especially regarding things like machine learning, optical character recognition, etc, but non of it can happen if the company continues to chase off talent.