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3.1

54% would recommend to a friend

(512 total reviews)
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Richard Bolte, Jr.

63% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

BDP International has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 512 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BDP International 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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512 reviews
3.0
Jun 14, 2011

Great Starting Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This is a great place to make friends right out of school. The people who you will work with (on an equal or almost equal level) are all extremely nice and fun. There are many office romances (good and bad) leading to many office marriages. You can expect to get a decent education on the logistics industry and then take that elsewhere. If you are vocal and hard working, and make nice with the right people, you can receive a lot of personal and professional development.

Cons

As everyone else has said, this is a family-owned company where they hired many of their friends who have made it into senior management positions. Many of these people are no good at their jobs and there are many dinosaurs who are making crazy salaries who don't do anything. That being said, they have just promoted a really good guy to Chief Operating Officer so we're all hoping to see some change in that realm. The Bolte brothers are all really nice, fair guys... however many of their management are friends with them and I don't think bother to actually listen to their commands - which is a real shame because these guys do have good heads on their shoulders. Depending on your manager, you can get really screwed on salary raises and benefits. Some are good, some are bad - and there is really no check on that so you're screwed until you move departments to a better, more fair manager.

3.0
Apr 1, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good office location in Philadelphia, many young people working for the company, a willingness to try new technology solutions, flat organization

Cons

Family owned business resulting in limited promotions, poor internal comminciations. old Theory X managers still around, weak on providing incentives and inconsistent in following up with goals.

1.0
Feb 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The company will give you extensive training which you can use to get a job in the same career, if this is what you want to do with your life. Once you have worked at BDP anywhere else will seem great in comparison.

Cons

Logistics Coordinator is a mindless data entry job. The recruiter will make it sound like this is a white collar professional job. You will see employees dressed in business casual, but do not be fooled by this. Although, it is an office environment. This job is really a blue collar job that happens to be in an office. This really gives new meaning to word monotonous. This really is not a job for a college graduate. I would estimate that maybe 7% of the employees in the Philadelphia office are college graduates and most of them do not work in logistics. They may work in other departments i.e. IT, HR, marketing, etc. If you are a college graduate do not work here because you will be bored out of your mind. However, do not complain to HR. My advise to you would be once you realize that you have "been had" by the recruiter is to simply leave the company and seek employment elsewhere. If you have just graduated college, then you would still be better served working in an administrative or even a customer service position as a temp through a staffing firm. This will help you build up your resume, so you can then land a white collar professional job hopefully at a publicly held corporation and not at a family owned business. For example, if you graduated with a degree in say marketing, then take a temp assignments that are marketing related through a staffing company. You will only be wasting your talent if you stay at BDP working in logistics. Check out the Westwood College data entry limbo commercial it is really funny. You will then get a sense of what it is like to work at BDP.

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