Lidl reviews

Employees need to work at least twelve-hour days if you want to be respected by your manager and working any less is extremely frowned upon. An employee was even skipped over for a promotion because management saw them leave at 6pm one day. They have a flextime policy, which would normally be a pro, but the only department which can utilize this policy is HR. Management is completely disconnected from their employees. They set unrealistic time frames for projects unnecessarily. They will be made aware of certain projects months in advance but do not communicate this to their employees until a few days before the due date, creating a chaotic environment where it’s a fire drill to finish. Many managers are completely under qualified and do nearly nothing, but they will snake by while taking credit of their employees’ work. Management will dangle the opportunity for promotion in front of you in order to get you to work harder, but hardly follows through on their promises. I was told that the company valued promoting from within when I started, but this is not the case in many departments. They bring their European mindset to this company and are not open to any change, however we do not get many of the perks offered in their Europeans operations. For example, we get half of the vacations days than in the European counterparts. We cannot work from home and are expected to take PTO when we are unable to get to the office in three feet of snow or if the metro shuts down. They try to sell to potential employees that we are metro accessible even though the office is over a mile away from the closest station. Management doesn’t understand that our office is not metro accessible because they all have company cars. We are expected to wear suits every day and even had our once a month casual Friday taken away because management did not think we were getting enough work done on those days. The company does not follow through with any of the values they preach. People will come for the money but leave due to do the hostile and chaotic environment. I would not recommend this company to any of my friends.

The upper management in this company, even directors, do not have the qualifications necessary to manage an entire department. Little instruction is given to employees and often times tasks are assigned to employees that do not have the industry experience or guidance to do so.Upper management is in charge of the safety of products, but they themselves have not had experience in the manufacturing environment at all and do not know what information is industry standard to collect for each product. Work that lower position employees have is often passed along as the work of their directors or senior managers when in actuality the upper management as no knowledge about the work at all. Actual experience and knowledge in the food industry is not valued at this company. Many people were promoted multiple times with huge jumps in position and pay because of personal relationships outside of work. There is no set standard in the purchasing department of how promotions work. During my time at Lidl, the people who had years of experience and brought up concerns from their experience working in manufacturing/food industry were brushed aside and in some cases even fired because they saw those people as threats. Your potential for promotions is based entirely on power play and how well you can pretend you know what you're doing when you don't. Only certain people tapped by management can move up in this company. There were many times that I felt threatened and unsafe in my working environment because of the intimidation factors being used on me and my team as a whole. When this was brought up as a concern, it was not taken seriously and excuses were fed to me by the director. Directors and senior managers do not take the blame for any mistakes that they make. Directors and senior mangers do not respect the time and hard work of the analysts on their team and do not foster a respectful environment. They curse at the entire department and use threatening language in an open office setting. They do not hold true to their values of "respect, recognition, and responsibility". Lidl is a lawsuit waiting to happen and a company that is doomed to fail. I would not advise anyone to work here.