Flexport reviews

- Great culture that encourages innovation and hard work. - Smart, yet down to earth colleagues that will support you in your goals - Excellent senior leadership, even though the majority is white males (we are trying to change that!) - Desire to change the world, but not from a business to consumer perspective. We are trying to make global trade easier with transparency and efficiency for business to business transactions. An amazing women leader started Flexport.org that partners with Flexport.com to create good in the world. Our senior leadership then vowed to pledge 1% of our time and profits toward at-cost logistics services for non-profits and carbon offset programs for our clients. This project was completely driven from the ground up. This is an example of amazing empowerment from senior leadership as the work was solid and strategy was well designed. - Personally, working here has felt like I have gotten an MBA in a short time - grown a team, managed P/L, developed commercial strategy, designed investment strategies, etc. There are growing pains with such fast paced environment, but it is definitely rewarding work experience with lots of problems to tackle.

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.