DHL Reviews

Pros

Great benefits and conditions for good people, very challenging environment, lots to learn, lots of new technologies

Cons

Senior management lacks 'touch to reality' and focus, extremely political environment, can become extremely stressful and life/work balance can at times be nonexistant.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop focusing on pet projects, stop acting as individuals, treat your staff with respect

Pros

Not a toxic environment--can say it is collaborative. Overall a pleasant place to work--nobody tries to make life difficult for anyone else. Sufficient opportunities to receive new training and try out different roles. A great deal of camaraderie. Decent work hours and compensation. Steady and stable job with very few individuals ever being given both responsibility and authority.

Cons

5-10% of management team is misaligned with the overall goal of the organization. Extreme turnover in middle management due to people moving around the company and out. Diversity within management is non-existent and in spite of external promises to fix this issue--diverse individuals are mostly hired in non-core business/non-revenue generating roles to play "safe" with the most important jobs. Very fragmented, delayed and sudden communication on upcoming changes. Most individuals either have responsibility or authority--very few cases in which an individual has both.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many unnecessary layers of management just to collate information and present it up to the corporate board. Put in more IT systems to do reporting for the numbers you require, not people that can be pointed to when the numbers go wrong, especially when these people have no budget or direct line reports to do anything concrete other than to "persuade" or point fingers at others down the line.

Pros

Lots of opportunities - carrerwise as well as educational
Truly global environment
Decent benefits
Great brand recognition
Well respected brand whithin the logistics industry

Cons

Too much politics wich sometimes makes the organization lose track of what is really important, ie results.
Poor information from management
The company seems to suffer from bi-annual large organizational changes on a global (as well as country) level

Pros

Empowerment to employees, value succession planning, innovative and creative

Cons

Limited engagement, long working hours

Pros

good with time off needed for family issues

Cons

Too many in upper management...needs to be cleaned up.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the Union...it works!

Pros

DHL Data Center Prague houses such as a vast array of technology that it's hard to find a company that has so many areas of potential IT knowledge advancement. I learned and was able to manage many differernt types of teams and technologies and work in a trully international environment with 62 different nationalities, at least when it opened in 2004.

- Extensive Technology Base
- Working with teams based around the world
- International culture of the organization.
- Ability to work in different ares of IT management

Benefits
- 5 weeks holiday

Cons

- Benefits Package for Expats could have been better
- Bit of a Glass ceiling for women

Pros

I was given a lot of responsibility as well as a flexible schedule to complete my work.

Cons

Management was not the best at communicating future plans and expectations.

Pros

Large company with many opportunities for advancement. Business partners on the logistical side of things create further opportunity. Unionised workforce, unless you consider that a con. Excellent pension package.

Cons

Locations are spread out and numerous, and it can be difficult to get to know everyone, or where the best opportunities are. I have heard that salaries are less than industry standard, but that has not been my personal experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Create more inter-site dialogue and experience, including with sites that work on other contracts. Also, provide more information about the various parts of DHL.

Pros

It is a employee of choice to work in the company as the company provide learning opportunity to every employee.

Cons

It is very difficult to mange and control big group of people and some policies are not benefits everyone in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Management have to concern the employees and try to understand the process from bottom to top in order to success.

Pros

brand recognition all over the world

Cons

Low pay, low equipment technology, work place can be cleaner and more presentable

Advice to Senior Management

Empower and trust your people.