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DHL Express

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DHL Express reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(4,093 total reviews)
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John Pearson

79% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

DHL Express has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,093 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 & Logistik industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
1.0
Nov 6, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This company used to offer a compelling bonus structure for motivated Sales Reps. The limited scope of the product offerings currently limits any real earning potential. DHL does offer a competitive benefits, reimbursement, and upward mobility. However, to advance in the culture one needs to ignore the systematic disfunction that occurs on a daily basis. Between a suffering operation, inaccurate billing, and poor customer service it would take a very callous individual to ignore the customer complaints stemming from these deficiencies. On the other hand, there are very few people left that have ambition to lead the dented sales team at DHL.

Cons

Poor leadership, irresponsible middle management, and poor financials have led this company into the state it is in today. The worst part of it is the lack of motivation across all functions.

1.0
Oct 27, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are none. Absolutely none. It was fun to drive, and now it's over.

Cons

DHL Express is currently "downsizing" as it struggles to right a sinking ship in a recessionary economy. Upper management has continually mismanaged the company to the point that it is losing $5 million dollars a day (that's over a billion dollars a year), even though their upfront costs were probably half that of its competitors, FedEx and UPS, and it had a diverse network and client base. It has continuously ignored whatever problems are actually occurring at the station level, has bungled numerous initiatives to cut costs and improve workplace efficiencies, has gone through a string of incompetent CEO's, Presidents, and VP's (who in turn were promoted into the upper reaches of the parent company, DPWN after failing to actually reach their "break even" target) and as a result there is a high degree of dissatisfaction by the dwindling customers we still have and low morale among the workers on the frontlines who run DHL's service model (delivering packages). DHL USA is simply going out of business, and supposedly "retooling" to service international products exclusively even as international trade is slowing down and jetfuel costs are skyrocketing through the roof.

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