APL reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(481 total reviews)
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Nicolas Sartini

78% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

APL has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 481 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The APL employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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481 reviews
4.0
May 22, 2013

OK company to work for.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The money is decent, depending on the Captain that you find yourself working with. Some Captains seem dead set on just saying no to everything. These tend to be very unhappy people. In which case it reflects back on the office for hiring people into a position of authority that they should not be. I had not meant to turn a positive into a negative, there.

Cons

Spending a lot of time away from home, it is sometimes easy to begin to feel that the office and the ship personnel are two separate entities, that we are not working with anyone from the office. For instance, when trying to access the internet ( a thing the ship's do not have, enough though it is 2013 - in Japan, outside an APL office with open internet connections, we were told by another APL employee that we were not allowed to use this open broadband connection. This is not cool.

3.0
Mar 14, 2013

bureaucratic

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers were helpful and friendly. The work atmosphere was pretty good over all. Inter-company transfer opportunities possible.

Cons

Bureaucratic management style means resources are not utilized efficiently. Can't really say No to the management and that's the company's culture.

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