Pros
Free Lunch Laptop Free Shuttle Bus Some good people
Cons
Kerry Logistics is a personification of the adage that facades cannot hide the true inner nature of a person or place.Kerry Logistics is a truly China focused company, looking to expand its horizons into the globalised world. While doing this successfully through external acquisitions of companies around the world, it fails to be able to make this change internally. With a handful of foreigners, the company thinks that internally- it's whole mindset will become more globalised. Sadly, this plays up against them. This can be seen by the appalling pay differential between foreigners and locals, the obvious distinction in team interactions and the positional stagnation of these people. Culture plays a very important part into the efficiency and work habits of a company and its people. Unfortunately, at Kerry the culture is top down and entirely about face. Pleasing people comes above getting work done. Bureaucracy is rampant. Respect ( as well as promotions) come with seniority and the affinity HR has for you, rather than performance itself. Terribly inefficient, narrow minded and stiff policies for people management. Traditions come before anything else and questioning the status quo, acting outside of the norm, or creativity are frowned upon, if not prohibited. There is a Management Trainee program, where Kerry places its future in the hands of a select group of university graduates from a variety of backgrounds. These people are meant to bring change and innovative management solutions. Sadly, the pressure of fitting the mould often over pars the intelligence and capabilities of these people. Who, on doing months of operational work, are swiftly promoted to higher strategic and managerial positions. And slowly, as they rise higher- that very change they are meant to bring, starts resembling the mould they were meant to initially break. Workplace bullying, gossip, inadequate equality and inclusion are obvious in Kerry. The free $20 dollar lunches, windowless offices and soulless management team are a sad coverup for this. If you are looking to grow, to be curious, learn constantly, to question, to be outside of the norm by even an inch or even just to hang out with cool people. I'd only recommend working with a select group of maybe 20 people in this organisation and praying you the one in 22,000 th people as your great boss. Otherwise, I'm telling you- don't call this upon yourself.