Lidl reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(8,088 total reviews)

Kenneth McGrath

71% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Lidl has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 8,088 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lidl employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Commerce de détail et de gros industry (3.5 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Sep 6, 2018

Awful company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay and the fact you earned time off and 401k you started vested.

Cons

as hired in April of 2017, and was one of the first hired with the new company. We were all very excited. It went down hill quick. I was at one store in Spartanburg, SC and was promised to be made a PT30 which is the company's somewhat version of full time. It never happened and I was fed up so transferred to the woodruff Rd store promised to be made a PT30. I stayed a month, then while waiting to clock in one day my store manager told me to clock in so he could show me the cardboard left in the freezer and that the cardboard being left cost me being made PT30. I then left that night and quit. While there the supervisors hated each other and it was a stressful work environment. It's not worth the pay and benefits for the lack of respect

2.0
Aug 8, 2018

Absolutely Toxic Environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pockets of fantastic people in various sections of the company, generally have been there about a year.

Cons

Absolute nepotism and idiotic sense by the majority of senior management. Hard work is not rewarded at all, and a remarkable glorification of the people who have gone through the grad program and moulded into Lidl-ised monkeys. Couldn't pay me enough to work there again.

1.0
Aug 5, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None, pay by the hour for managers 8s often lower than that if the employees they manage.

Cons

Treated like dirt, verbally abused on shop floor, called a liar, managed through fear. Glad to see the back of this company, biggest mistake of my professional life.

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Lidl Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. Our aim is to ensure a positive working environment for all employees across the business, so please be assured that we take all feedback very seriously. You can contact us at careers.sm@lidl.co.uk to discuss anything further, we wish you the best of luck with the next stage in your career. - Andy, Recruitment
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