Flexport reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(1,184 total reviews)
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Ryan Petersen

80% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Flexport has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,184 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Flexport employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Mar 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You'll make some good friends here. You won't be friends with everyone. If you're breaking into tech, you can definitely get into operations if you say you're open minded, and express tons of enthusiasm to do whatever they want you to do. If you're a bro, type A, and shamelessly dgaf but fake that you do, you might just prosper. If you like beer, cheery people, and are good at blending into the walls and avoiding extra hours, you might set yourself up with a good situation. If constantly checking your email and slack to provide updates about client cargo status makes you feel good and important, you have hit gold. Maybe it gets better after some time, but the fact that no one (secretly but obviously) does not want to do that, there's a healthy line of older operations folks trying to find their way out of that.

Cons

Operations grinds and sweats to keep clients happy. Make sure you know what you are getting into. Would definitely encourage finding a mentor who cares, but I think that's hard/close to impossible, as most are just trying to stay afloat. Know you have other options. This place is well marketed. But things just seem off when people are scared to sit at lunch for more than 30 minutes. Maybe that's beautiful grind? The people who have left after a year have done much better for themselves.

1.0
Dec 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Company growing fast and stock price keeps going up - Ambitious goals and momentum - Interesting problem to solve

Cons

- Pay is below almost any other tech company. Even smaller startups pay more! - Flexport had a great culture before they started focusing on the IPO. This is something that most companies have to do, but Flexport fully pivoted and made very drastic changes, many of which were related to hiring, employee experience , and benefits. After this happened, the culture gradually turned toxic. This was very much driven by management showing they no longer cared for their employees well being. They laid off 10% of the workforce when the pandemic started, while the business grew exponentially and they held hiring freezes for a long time. The front-office workforce was and continues to be extremely overworked. There is no work life balance whatsoever and there is a continued clear prioritization of profitability over employee well being. As well, since the IPO goal was announced, they cut social budgets, happy hours, merch budgets, development budgets, etc. - Leadership decision making is slow and questionable - Management is completely out of touch and a few of them are completely unqualified for their roles. As well, the C-Suite has had a very high amount of turnover, which goes to show how Ryan struggles to identify, hire, and retain top C-Suite candidates - Talent isn't top tier: Turnover since 2020 has been astronomically high (especially in SF and NY). That combined with high growth led us to hire a lot of mediocre people, leading to a very mixed and underwhelming level of talent - The company departments do not work in together. Every department works very siloed, which leads to problems not getting fixed quickly, no one taking responsibility for issues, and a lack of company wide efforts to resolve issues as a team. This has also created an incredible amount of red tape to get things done - Lack of visibility into career pathing. After the reorganization they created new roles for many people and were unable to provide visibility into career progression or development opportunities - Lack of People Ops support. A lot of the People Ops team has quit or gotten fired, so there are few avenues to address or bring up these systemic issues - The vacation policy is Unlimited vacation. However, every team and office is different. NY had a culture of not taking much vacation. Most people took 2 weeks or less - No 401k match

1.0
Aug 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

CEOs business vision is good. Food and perks are nice.

Cons

Everyone else below CEO and C level don't care about the company but just to meet their metrics with zero feeling about the business. They have a lousy interview process, hire a lot of people and fire like a cake. So don't be a fool if they tell you they LOOOOOVVVEEEE you, it's just a big lie. They want to attract as many people as possible to the trap and fire afterward. That's how they think they oversmart the valley ;)))) Try to talk to a friend or buddy inside before you go, to make sure you are making a right move. Don't be like many of people get fired every month... Just ask around of their reputation.

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Flexport Response
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Thanks for taking the time to write this review and for sharing your candid feedback about your time at Flexport. We are committed to fostering a transparent and collaborative environment for all of our employees, so I’m disappointed to hear about some of your experiences. We value and consider all feedback, and we’ll continue to find ways to improve—but I wanted to address a couple of your specific concerns here. Our Makers organization (what we call our Engineering, Product, and Design teams) is working hard to disrupt an industry and solve complex problems on a daily basis. They are a group of intelligent, collaborative, innovative individuals, and I’m proud to call them my colleagues. As a company that has had drastic growth over the last year, I want to acknowledge that with growth comes change. Our hope is that these changes will allow us to transition into what we believe is the next phase of Flexport’s development, and this includes continued development of our platform and products.
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