Smoke and mirrors - Anonymous employee Flexport Employee Review

2.0
Jun 14, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Scrappy do it yourself and figure it out culture Fun fraternity culture (this is a con for D&I and productivity reasons but if you’re looking for a play hard and make it up as you go culture this place is for you) Coolest design/illustration/brand of any freight forwarder Great PR team, they can sell mistakes as success to any media outlet Best lunches in the office and huge snack selection If you can fake it and push hard enough you can climb the latter here pretty easily

Cons

The tech stack is very manual “man behind the curtain” with continuous turnover in engineering that makes it impossible for the technology to really become automated or intelligent If you’re accepting a job offer at a VP level or higher, don’t intend on staying for more than 11 months. Executives are frequently used as scapegoats and are laid off frequently. The CEO isn’t sure how to appropriately allocate resources. Is this a freight forwarding company? A technology company? A customs broker? A children’s book company? A private airfreight company? The values and OKRs are constantly changing. Diversity and inclusion practices are put on individuals to figure out instead of upper management. Upper management is constantly scheming to save money while burning capital at the same time. There isn’t a very transparent culture. One of the offices was put up to be leased and it became public information before the employees that worked out of that office were informed.

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Cons

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Pros

Lots of really smart and nice people at the company. The culture has improved a lot recently. There's a good amount of room to develop and jump on things that you might not be exposed to in other companies.

Cons

The company moves a little too fast at times and maybe overlooks things that are working well and don't necessarily need to be changed for "efficiency" at the risk of doing things incorrectly. It can be hard to move up in some departments. work/life balance varies a lot by team.

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