Stay Away - Manager Lidl Employee Review

1.0
Nov 11, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay and Benefits are at least average. If you stay and are competent you will get promoted because everyone above you will either quit or get fired pretty quickly.

Cons

Company culture is toxic - everyone is looking for someone to blame when things go wrong. People are expected to work very long hours and take on a huge workload for a company that is failing. Upper management doesn't last more than 2 years before getting fired, and the new leadership always comes in trying to change things and shake people up. Well newsflash, if you change direction every two years you are going to end up going in circles. Overall, management is disrespectful, leadership is heavily top-down and arrogant, and people are demoralized. They are obsessed with the Lidl way, meaning they only put Lidl people (ie Europeans with Lidl experience) in leadership positions, and none of them have a clue how things work in the US. It's really just total dysfunction. This company belongs in Germany in 1925, not in the US in 2021.

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Pros

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