- good coworkers and work - good challenges - good work
-weak leadership and lot of changes under new leadership - lot of unstability within the company
Inside knowledge that layoffs are happening next Friday. 30% cut. Going to be steep. Also theme seems to be that the cuts are disproportionately affecting those in US and APAC. The company is imploding. Will be an interesting 60 minutes on how to destroy value in a company when the inexperienced fo...Read more
Anyone have any thoughts on the potential upside of Flexport? I’m interested but unsure of culture, growth and viability. Tagging other logistics based companies 😘
An engineering director friend just got laid off from Flexport after joining less than a year ago. WTF is going on over there?? Any other reports of layoffs here?
What do people think of these guys? Got an offer from them but they are giving deadline for the offer like as if I was fresh out of school. Also they are claiming they will be valued at 60b in 2 years since softbank already values them at 3b. They have a plane as well to do freight. I think their bu...Read more
To the flexport folks, when do you think the company will IPO and what price are they aiming? What's the current price, any ideas? #Flexport #ipo
Dave Clark (ex-Amazon) resigned as CEO. The new CEO is the old CEO (founder Ryan Petersen). What’s going on at Flexport? Tap the photo to read the entire email. Blind cropped the screenshot. It sounds like Ryan wanted to come back. Didn’t he leave to become a VC? Did he get fired as a VC?
Congrats to Blind team on the acquisition by Flexport! With this move, Flexport seeks to radically de-anonymize Blind and turn it into LinkedIn for Truckers!
Another 20% layoff today. They just did a 20% layoff 2 months ago. Over 70% of workers gone. Is this the end of Flexport? https://www.reuters.com/business/us-logistics-startup-flexport-lay-off-20-its-workforce-information-2024-01-26/
So almost all Deliverr Senior Leads are leaving Flexport! What’s going on there? #flexport #shopify #deliverr
Looking for the next big thing. After several rounds of invetigation, i ended up with focus on Samsara and Flexport. Heard both are growing fast, culture is not bad(i’m not that picky about culture, as long as it is not crazily toxic). Flexport is larger but heard most of revenue is going to the s...Read more
Got these two offers, little inclined towards flexport because of their potential IPO. Google L5 - 190+ 131 + 38 = ~ 350 Flexport When it’s 10 dollar a share 175 + 112 + 17 = ~ 304 When it’s 18 dollar a share ( this is the price trading in secondary market) people from flexport please confirm th...Read more
I want to get into an engineering manager role. I have software engineer offers from all these and can’t decide which is the best one to pick to get into a manager role. How do I go about deciding? What has your experience been at these companies? TC: 350K for all three
HR asked me more equity or more cash. Why should I answer? Also asking this as I have other startup offers. Also, Is flexport a good place to work?
Looks like they cut another 15% of their workforce (~500 employees). Sorry to those impacted. :( https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/Flexport-layoffs-15-percent-January-2024/706249/
Got a Flexport offer for a role in the optimization group in LA. Offered TC = $95 base, 10% bonus, 5300 RSU units over 4 years ($26k per year at current $20 valuation) Current TC = $140k (Canada) Yoe: 5 Should I take this offer? I am in a couple of final rounds with LinkedIn, Uber, Salesforce.
I just saw a tweet by the Flexport founder and current CEO rescinding all 70 signed offers the company made under the recently-fired CEO, Dave. This is nuts! What’s going on at Flexport???
I have got an offer from flexport and I should take cut on my base to join flexport ~ 20k I have been hearing various information about IPO is IPO real? And also Pre ipo RSU’d have double trigger policy and expiration dates on their RSU’s so if they don’t go ipo for 7 years or so my RSU are worthl...Read more
Hello Blind, Recently I was laid off from google and currently I have two offers from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and flexport. Please suggest a company based on career growth, reputation and visa help. I am currently on h1b with no i140 ( It was under the process but google withdrew it after layin...Read more
From Shopify, another $260m from a previously undisclosed $40m. In Shopify lingo, is this BIA or did we get a deep enough discount on convertible notes to risk if Flexport can turns things around? https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/flexport-raising-260m-from-shopify-report/