Lidl reviews

- No sense of direction or company mission. This company does not know what they are doing. Decisions are made based on "a feeling" and will change at any moment. The company tries to be unique but ends up following exactly what our main competitor does. - Incompetent people in management positions. This company brings in many European employees to be in management positions. The problem is that there are differences in the European market compared to the US market. European management will try to implement things that are done in Europe and most of the time will not work in the US. Instead of promoting people internally, the company looks to bring over European colleagues who only stay for a few years and end up going back. - There are specific timelines and processes for projects, yet for some reason every project is always "out of process" and "urgent" that needs to happen right away. You’ll find your time and effort you put in are often wasted. - If you are a robot who likes doing the same tasks over and over again and not looking to grow in your career, then this is the job for you!! This place does not care about your growth. There are little to no opportunities to learn and grow outside of your daily tasks. Your hard work and effort are NEVER rewarded or even recognized to be honest. Promotions are not given to those who deserve them. Requests to attend external trainings and trade shows to learn more about the industry and grow in your role are often denied as the company does not think it is important to invest in their employees. The only thing you’ll learn from here is what NOT to do as most things you’ll do here are not common practices in the industry. - If you care about your mental health, I would stay away from here. I’ve never been in such a working environment where so many colleagues have said they have developed mental health issues due to the work environment. The culture operates based on fear. The culture is to “escalate” things to your manager when something goes wrong instead of working together as a team to learn and resolve problems. People you work with will go behind your back and complain to your manager instead of talking to you directly. There is a lot of finger pointing when problems arise or something is late. Managers will spend more time documenting their employees’ mistakes instead of working with them to resolve problems. Working in this culture, you have to be on the lookout for you and cover yourself. Developing anxiety is a common theme at this place. - I wouldn’t believe all the highly rated reviews here. This company has asked current employees to log on to give good ratings in order to lure others to work at this terrible place. It’s like a revolving door for employees because the turnover at this place is so high. If you start here, you’ll probably leave this place feeling so behind in your career that leaving will the best decision you make for yourself.

Expect to work a ton, and longer hours. While I was there it seemed like the company was in this vicious downward spiral where people would leave, their work was allocated to people remaining putting more pressure on them, the pressure was too much so they left, which then put more pressure on remaining people, etc. Directors of buying were having to buy categories simply because the turnover was so high. In speaking with people still at the company the pressure has only gotten worse and not better.