Maersk Line Reviews

Pros

Communication is open in both ways
Listen for good ideas
Opportunity available to everyone
Care for employee

Cons

Salary is at industry average

Pros

- excellent learning experience + training for fresh grads
- exposure to business intelligence from executive POV
- free coffee
- very clean and professional environment
- decent/ slightly above average workstation (core 2 duo PCs with 4GB RAM / Office 2007)
- abundant training seminars (both technical and leadership)
- global IT support outsourced by HP
- directly communicate to immediate stakeholders / high level management (including video conference, webex, Office communicator, phone on global scale)

Cons

- very low/uncompetitive compensation (8k - 12k php starting, you'll be very lucky to reach 19k)
- very vague job descriptions and workload assignment (doesn't really matter if you are a graduate of engineering or mathematics / your workload is pretty much the same as that of the specialist [but you get paid lower] )
- very poor use of employees with specialized expertize (since everybody gets more or less same workload)
- in relation to above statements, it does not really matter if you are a magna cum laude in economics mathematics or just a graduate of HRM / literature or heck just about any undergrad course, as a fresh grad, you are only offered an Associate position.
- really unfair as those with only call center or at least any 1-year experience gets offered a senior associate position

Advice to Senior Management

If you want employees to do tasks like encoding / data cleaning, then its really a waste since employees didn't breaks their backs for that bachelors degree just to do that kind of work.

Also a waste from the company perspective as the company did invest a lot of time, resources, and even money for its employees only to do that kind of work.

And please do not expect employees to be happy when , as graduates of mathematics, engineering, and economics, their workload is the same as that of graduates of literature / communications / HRM, and generally those courses that do not specialize in data analysis.

Overall, if you are a fresh grad looking for a big career boost or at least a stepping stone in your career life, highly recommended that you apply for this company.

But in the long run, do think about how will you be able to survive with only minimum wage compensation. Best way to settle in this company is to acquire experience from other companies then apply as a specialist role in this company and just hope for the best in the long run.

Pros

Stable company with decent benefits.

Cons

You are always replacable no matter what level.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring jobs back to USA

Pros

Market leader
good to enviroment

Cons

Under market pay / bad pay rises
local management not good enough.
customers getting a bad deal

Advice to Senior Management

rebuild from ground up.
dont outsource work to people who have no idea what is going on

Pros

Working for an industry leader

Cons

Highly incompetent local management in agency offices

Advice to Senior Management

Change them locally

Pros

- Sophisticated systems
- Good global leadership and foresight (esp industry and economic)
- Depending on roles, good international experience by nature of industry
- Company is a market leader and therefore generally valuable relative to competition in short run

Cons

- Poor local and regional leadership mainly due to lack of transparency
- Extremely profit driven and employees are commonly disregarded
- Long working hours and generally poor compensation
- Not good in long run esp for ambitious people. It kills your ambition.
- Little or no access to mentors, executive coach, genuine learning opportunities beyond online courses. Finer training biased to top management or a few select
 - No room for creative, genuine teaamwork oriented people
- Little or no teambuilding or social or employee events. Little work-life balance.
 - Red tape
- No, Maersk is not Humble..and its in their values

Advice to Senior Management

Happy Employees = Happy Customers = Sustainable Growth
Assets and great strategies to recession and competitive advantage are OK, but the missing link is genuinely taking care of the Employees

Pros

Professiinal,long term,ethical,cutting edge,global, transparent,progressive, flat structure,,multicultural ,multi industry,good infrastructure,good hr practices,legacy

Cons

Tough,ruthless,formal,aggressive,unpredictable,dependent on economic situations,perform or perish,high average age of employees,dress code,pay level

Advice to Senior Management

Need to find ways to hedge risk of economic downturns and handle markets locally rather than high hq influence .rest is ok

Pros

employees equality , customer satisfaction a priority

Cons

salary among a same group of people who perform same work

Advice to Senior Management

no

Pros

good benefits and pay, industry leader

Cons

silos, poor communications within, nobody knows what others do

Pros

Management is easily approachable and transparent in all communication.
Work life balance is good.
Good work culture.
Work is completely process oriented.

Cons

Salary is below relative industry standards.

I have nothing else to say about the CONS of working with Maersk Lines.

Advice to Senior Management

Please match salary to industry standards.

I have no more advice to give to AP Moller Maersk Lines' senior management.