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Odyssey Logistics & Technology reviews

3.0

37% would recommend to a friend

(158 total reviews)
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Hans Stig Moller

49% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Odyssey Logistics & Technology has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 158 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Odyssey Logistics & Technology 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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158 reviews
2.0
Apr 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're right out of college or had menial jobs prior to working for Odyssey, then this job is great. Its an introduction to a professional atmosphere. The benefits are satisfactory and they give you little grief about time off. If you're not a "go-getter" or are apt to make mistakes there is little discipline or penalty. If you are looking for that first entry level position or a place to ride out your days to retirement, Odyssey is the perfect place for you.

Cons

Like the other review, management has little vision and refuses to make changes. There seems to be an overwhelming effort to suppress initiative and competency. Rather than promoting from within, they hire advanced positions from outside the company, or promote on "agreeability" rather than actual ability. In the department I worked, there were dozens of employees that simply could not perform the tasks they were assigned. Rather than replace the employee, the work was simply shuffled to more capable employees, and the other employee was placed in a "no fail" position. Customer needs are routinely overlooked in order to save the company money. Upper management will routinely turn a blind eye to the problems in lower departments as long as there are no customer complaints. All in all, Odyssey could be a great company to work for, but the management and communication structures will ultimately keep them from reaching their full potential.

2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Get to go home every night. It is not a travel environment. The benefits package is ok and the company still picks a major portion of it. The core group of people have been together for over a decade which is uncommon. However because of this, they are very inflexible to change and the company is suffering for that since this group controls the key to the IT. Also since the core group has been together thru the almost death of the previous company (which was bought by Odyssey), they are very afraid to make the drastric architectural changes needed with the PM and Dev groups in order to meet the needs in the new marketplace.

Cons

The leadership does not listen to employees. There is no long range plan of how IT is to support the business in order to be better in marketplace. The focus is on providing point solutions and not how that that solution fits into the overall picture of the company's business plan. For example there are plans on what the next platform will look like but not plans on how to try to tie the various departments together in order to reduce the amount of manual work that has to be done moving information from the sales department to the accounting department. From the contracts management department to operations. Sales doesn't have visibility into which contracts are going to expire nor does the commerical group have a repeatable process in order to notify sales the these particular contracts are approaching the expiration window.

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