DHL reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(3,343 total reviews)
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Dr. Tobias Meyer

83% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

DHL has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,343 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DHL 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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2.0
Aug 12, 2015

Intelligent employees would be dissapointed

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's an environment where you can learn many things about IT processes and services, if you are motivated to investigate and smart enough to see the "bigger picture". The working environment is spacious. There are a few relax zones, it's clean and it's located near the Chodov Shopping Center.

Cons

People lacking leadership and people management skills are way too often placed in positions to lead teams. Most managers lack the very understanding of what a team is and how to increase their performance. Rigid mindset (even sexist due to being in a the male dominated industry), not accepting new ideas to increase efficiency and being afraid of changes. Across the years I've known several managers and 'leaders'' with little education and lacking critical skills for their positions being promoted due to the social network they are part of. While having limited skills, these individuals tend to adopt an authoritarian management style, creating a bad dynamic (gossiping, lack of transparency, lack of consideration for team/group members when making decision about their work, etc) within the groups they are supposed to manage (as we cannot speak of leadership or teams in these cases). Skilled and intelligent employees tend to be fed up with having less skilled people as managers and leave the group or the company all together. It's not a good environment for intelligent people, as intelligence and high efficiency cannot be spotted (or understood when explained) by those who do not have the ability to comprehend it.

5.0
Jul 26, 2015

Manager at DHL

Recommend
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Pros

Excellent employer, great culture, nice benefits, established company with process, lots's of possibilities for future development, lot's of training,

Cons

there are not too many. May be sometimes the processes are overdone.

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4.0
Jul 21, 2015

A good place to work long term

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Pros

Decent salary, good work-life balance, flexible working times. Nice collegues and good mood within the department. Lots of opportunities for training and advancement, but you need to take care of them yourself. Depending on your boss he or she will motivate you to do so, but in the end you are responsible for yourself.

Cons

Quite slow career advancement, depending on department also bad working environment possible and unsatisfactory mood within the teams. Budget sometimes wastefully spend. Cost cutting strategies lately can build up pressure.

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