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Delta Air Lines reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(8,206 total reviews)
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Ed Bastian

85% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Delta Air Lines has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 8,206 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Delta Air Lines employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transporte e logística industry (3.5 stars).

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8K reviews
2.0
May 25, 2022
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

I worked for Delta 6 years and I really enjoyed the benefits and certain events. Meaning pretty good health insurance, 401k match AND most importantly, flight benefits which come with some drawbacks (domestic flights are trouble, better to buy a ticket, however for international it can be very valuable). I got some rules of thumb, join Delta corporate if you want to travel or if your plan is to get Delta on your resume and then get out in couple years after you enjoy traveling the world. Also if you’re not the youngest anymore meaning you really don’t have the drive and passion anymore about your profession, you don’t want to improve things, you don’t want to learn anything new and just want to sit back and enjoy the boring life until retirement then Delta is for you.

Cons

I have lot of downsides that I noticed during my years in Delta: 1) If you want to learn new technologies and be innovative, this is not a company for you (very old tech with early 2000ish habits) - they just pretend to be the best 2) people get promoted into management positions without an actual skill for the job, just because they were in the company for long time and “started from the bottom” 3) frankly, Delta is a cult - act happy, be positive, talk only great things about Delta because everyone else does and if you’re not then you will nit fit. Feels like sorority or fraternity 4) low salaries compared to other tech companies. Delta thinks that the benefits will equal up to higher salaries (it’s like why we need to pay you more when you can fly for free) WRONG! If you ask for a raise you will barely get 4% raise in few years 5) NOT REMOTE for a job that can simply be remote, if Delta wants to have and keep young talent they need to hop on the current market’s train 6) seems like people get hired based on years of experience (or how enthusiastic are about Delta’s culture) more than an actual skill - this will show on projects and you will notice 7) looking for agile methodologies or efficient project structure? good luck to you. not present 8) the entire company feels very disorganized 9) going to piggyback on 1) again, all Delta’s IT isn’t great. You can notice as an employee, requesting for stuff, or even navigating through employee web and so on but, as a Software Engineer, I really saw techie things that I don’t ever want to see again

4.0
Dec 12, 2014

Ready Reserve - it's not for everybody

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The flight benefits are about it really. Aside from that, there is that collective culture that everyone tries to help.

Cons

The 1300 hour limit for ready reserves makes it tricky to swap shifts when you need to, and is still counted against you when they freeze your schedule during irregular operations (i.e. severe weather). At the same time, doubling up seems to be easier to do in some of the hubs like Atlanta, Minneapolis, Detroit, etc despite some bases having high seniority, making it harder to work your way up. If you want to move up in the company, then you'd have to be open to relocating. Your shifts fluctuate about every six months when you bid again based on seniority, so over time it does provide more flexibility in your daily life if you choose to stick it out.

4.0
Jan 10, 2019
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

fly for free domestic on availability

Cons

- this Job was very disappointing, not only the money is terrible but also the flexibility of the job is bad. if you are planning to stick to this job because of the flight benefits you must know that the money you make with delta is so bad you are gonna need a second job, therefore, you won't have days off to enjoy those free flights. - opportunities to grow and limited, there are so many people waiting in line just to be a supervisor, and supervisors only make a dollar more. - 6-month probation where you cant swap shifts with other people which made it difficult for me to keep my second job. - last but not least money is bad not even people that live in projects could live off of that.

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