Flexport reviews

I've been around long enough in this Industry and to a certain extent with Flexport to truly value what Flexport offers its employees. As TechCrunch called it, freight forwarding is unsexy, but that's the best part and why this is an amazing opportunity. The key to success at Flexport is taking the time and effort to understand how the freight forwarding world really operates at its current state. Once, anyone understands that part, its hard to not be passionate about what Flexport's trying to solve. Make no mistake, it isn't going to be easy, the freight forwarding eco-system is extremely manual and like pulling teeth. Change doesn't come over-night and often times, you will have to play along in the manual environment to eventually effect change down the line with our stakeholders. If you are looking to work at a tech startup that is striving hard to effect change and disrupt an extremely old fashioned industry, then this is your place. As for the workplace environment itself, having worked in conventional freight forwarding in other parts of the country, I greatly appreciate all the perks here! Fully stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks aside from breakfasts, catered in lunches, full on with a salad bar and dessert. People who work here are extremely smart, come from diverse backgrounds and multi-talented. This place definitely motivates you to be a better person everyday.

I've always been excited to work at companies that use technology to transform archaic, super-manual, huge industries... and Flexport fits that perfectly. I also think we're tacking some very tough problems. We're building the social-enterprise graph of global trade. And if we think like Jeff Bezos, maybe one day we will have the Amazon for Enterprise (e.g. Seller orders X amount of goods from Y manufacturers in foreign country and it magically shows up at seller's warehouses so they can sell to their customers). There are so many career growth opportunities. I've been able to choose between further developing my tech chops, going into management, and starting an initiative from scratch. As Ms. Frizzle says, "take chances. make mistakes. get messy". I love the healthy 50:50 split of engineering types here. We have some product/business oriented engineers (usually from smaller companies or ex-founders), and some very wise/seasoned infra engineers (Google/FB/Uber/etc). It's easy to work with other departments. Since joining, I've been able to work pretty closely with people from ops, marketing, and sales. I'm constantly learning the skills to be able to do my own successful startup one day.