DPD job reviews

Showing 33 reviews

• Best thing

  Get left alone to do my job, good wages

  Worst thing

  Dirty wagons

  6.0

  DPD Employee, June 2022

• Best thing

  Easy work, enjoyable and relaxing if you know what you're doing

  Worst thing

  Early start

  9.2

  DPD Employee, March 2022

• Best thing

  It was easy

  Worst thing

  Lifting heavy loads

  2.7

  DPD Employee, November 2021

• Best thing

  Small amounts ot team work

  Worst thing

  Work/ family life balance poor especially new drivers forced to work weekends

  5.0

  DPD Employee, September 2021

• Best thing

  Good money. Great community

  Worst thing

  Nights

  8.4

  DPD Employee, September 2021

• Best thing

  Pay & potential to finish early if you work hard

  Worst thing

  Long hours when starting out getting to know the routes

  6.9

  DPD Employee, August 2021

• Worst thing

  It has severely affected my mental health over the last 6 years.

  7.0

  DPD Employee, June 2021

• Best thing

  The people I work and associate with and the money isn’t bad

  Worst thing

  It’s the night shifts are unsociable and it’s a very hard job as in physical lifting parcels to and from the different areas in the warehouse

  8.4

  DPD Employee, June 2021

• Best thing

  Good banter with colleagues

  Worst thing

  Upper management don't seem to understand the impact their apparently arbitrary targets have on the stress levels of workers. It seems someone needs to justify their job when really the company would be better without them.

  5.5

  DPD Employee, May 2021

• Best thing

  Out on the road

  Worst thing

  Deadlines

  4.3

  DPD Employee, April 2021

• Best thing

  Lone working

  Worst thing

  Time constraints
  Lack of help from depot

  1.1

  DPD Delivery driver, April 2021

• Best thing

  Fast paced, out on the road.

  Worst thing

  Demanding

  6.1

  DPD C and d driver, March 2021

• Best thing

  Job security

  Worst thing

  Lack of communcation in the workplace,and Management communication poor

  4.3

  DPD Operatons, February 2021

• Best thing

  You manage your own time once you leave the depot

  Worst thing

  Loading in the morning

  4.1

  DPD Owner driver, January 2021

• Best thing

  The freedom

  Worst thing

  Odd long day

  9.2

  DPD Driver, January 2021

• Best thing

  The money and being your own boss

  Worst thing

  To many Drivers working for DPD so cutting are days down from 5/4 days a week so loss of income

  8.0

  DPD Delivery driver, January 2021

• Best thing

  When it goes well it’s not to bad, and pay is not to bad if you go with the right Contactors

  Worst thing

  Having to look for a load that’s never ready to go, late nights with no time for a break,

  1.9

  DPD Driver, January 2021

• Best thing

  I enjoy being able to progress others in there career path

  Worst thing

  Being taken for granted

  6.6

  DPD Shift manager, January 2021

• Best thing

  Suitable hours

  Worst thing

  Unpaid overtime
  Commuting distance

  7.0

  DPD Delivery driver, December 2020

• Best thing

  Van paid for use whenever, good pay overtime paid at day rates

  Worst thing

  Stressful, no support, finding missing parcels, trying to load before 9am so you get home at a reasonable time is very unlikely

  2.4

  DPD Courier, November 2020

• Best thing

  Meeting customers

  Worst thing

  Loading the van in the morning

  2.8

  DPD Delivery driver, November 2020

• Best thing

  The degree of freedom I have and how close to home it is

  Worst thing

  To much pressure to get work done

  6.4

  DPD C&d driver & lead ojt, November 2020

• Best thing

  Occasional downtime, nice colleagues

  Worst thing

  Ripped off for cups of tea and chocolate out of the vending machines, water supply is dirty, don't get paid properly, no hopes of progressing, faulty equipment.

  1.1

  DPD Warehouse operative, October 2020

• Best thing

  Simple and well paid. Not overly stressful so proved useful whilst looking to start my career elsewhere

  Worst thing

  Night shift. But that’s expected due to the industry.

  9.3

  DPD Sortation operative, October 2020

• Best thing

  lone working

  Worst thing

  time constraints
  No leeway or excuses for failure of delivery times

  1.0

  DPD Delivery driver, October 2020

• Best thing

  being out on the road on my own

  Worst thing

  the constant changes the company keeps making.

  2.5

  DPD collection and delivery driver, September 2020

• Best thing

  meet new people, every day is different

  3.2

  DPD Courier, August 2020

• Best thing

  People I work with

  Worst thing

  Not enough time to do you tasks

  5.5

  DPD Ops admin, August 2020

• Worst thing

  Stress, long hours, no chance of getting a bonus, no respect.

  1.0

  DPD Delivery driver, June 2020

• Best thing

  Working on my own

  Worst thing

  Management have no respect for employees

  4.6

  DPD Linehaul driver, March 2020

• Best thing

  Out on my own with no boss watching every second

  Worst thing

  Haven't got any

  9.4

  DPD C+d driver, March 2020

• Best thing

  Getting out and meeting different people

  Worst thing

  Time restraints on job

  4.6

  DPD C&d driver, March 2020

• Best thing

  It's like a gym

  Worst thing

  The managers

  6.7

  DPD Warehouseman, December 2019