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DHL Express

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DHL Express reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(4,094 total reviews)
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John Pearson

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

DHL Express has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,094 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DHL Express employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transport de biens et de personnes industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Mar 5, 2020

Politics, Politics, Politics....

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay, Benefits, and many people I worked with for so long.

Cons

Layers of crippling bureaucracy, no true avenue for advancement without politics involved (only "who you know"), and inefficient leaders are simply moved to different roles or relocated (again, "who you know")

3.0
Aug 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a well known company and unlike the bad rep it is receiving in the states; it’s rather well respected on the whole here. There are also allot of opportunities for movement within departments and even between the countries to the regional to the global office. Training is rather prevalent and there are many courses available but as always it is dependent on individual managers to approve of the training. Having DHL on one's resume is not seen as a bad thing. Benefits are pretty generous in terms of leave and medical.

Cons

There is way too much paper work and emphasis on KPIs to fulfill and administer from the senior management. Instead of concentrating on revenue generation and directing resources in that direction, cost cutting is being used to trim departments and on the smaller items just because we are unable to hit an unrealistically set budget although DHL is still making a profit. Although there are less people, the same amount or even MORE paper work is thrown at the staff to fulfill. People spend so much time inputting and amending data in order to do up reports to show numbers. I personally do not see the point of having a huge file of papers full of graphs and numbers when as staff we do not know whether the management EVEN bothers to look at it on a monthly basis or just files it after looking at perhaps 5 out of a 100 pages of reports. Sometimes it seems to me that whenever the people at the global office have some smart idea to implement something, they don't realize the amount of work that has to be done by the countries just to provide them with what they wish to see.

1.0
Dec 3, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

decent pay for external hires if they want the top talent bad enough

Cons

they do not give fair and equitable treatment to all associates when there is opportunity to promote, they have a lot of favoritism. And the raises for internal promotions are abysmal, the amount of work expected with the little increase in pay is strikingly off balance.

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