DS Smith Reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(578 total reviews)
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Miles Roberts

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

DS Smith has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 578 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DS Smith employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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578 reviews
4.0
24 Feb 2022

Good company to work for

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, pension and hours and overtime available

Cons

Some unrealistic targets and can be quite stressful running a machine

1.0
26 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

International company with great networking opportunities

Cons

Management now ex-USA and not focussed on Asia Pacific. Little emphasis on this part of the world from senior management

1.0
10 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Standard market compensation and salary, travel, opportunity to grow, health and dental insurance, nothing else really, diverse staff, social coworkers

Cons

HORRIBLE work/life balance, too much politics, toxic staff and coworkers, HR is very biased and always secretive.. marketing department had 6 people come and go in one year (2016) for the same positions. There is one person in the marketing department that everyone hates. They make your life hell, super unorganized, don't know how to prioritize, will waste time on stupid things and then ask you to stay after hours to complete the work.. management keeps talking crap about other people with their own employees (how stupid). there are two marketing roles.. both roles do stupid kiddish work that even high schoolers can do. you don't learn anything at all. The management in the marketing department literally throws her phone on the table and the floor when they are angry. They use swear words for their coworkers and counterparts. They reveal secrets of other people in other department in anger and are always in the worst mood ever. You will never see a smile on their face. Has a horrrrrrible work life balance and expects the same from you.

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