Lidl reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(8,070 total reviews)

Kenneth McGrath

73% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Lidl has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 8,070 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
Dec 12, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Some colleague that I worked with are nice, smart and willing to learn. But they all either got fired without any notice or quit without other job offer because of desperation. Another pro might be make you feel so good just to get out of this company.

Cons

1. Poor management. A lot of managers are promoted not because they are skilled or experienced, but just because they suck up the right people and stay long enough. So most of them have only analyst level of knowledge but are assigned to manage more skilled workers and pretend they know the stuff. So arrogant and pretentious. Absolute no appreciations and respect. 2. Poor pay. Definitely way underpaid for some data analytics job. I hope they can realize it by just googling the market pay for people with certain skill. They definitely have no intention to retain talent. The analytics team here is a joke. Nothing you can learn here. 3. Poor communication. We were super short staffed, which I thought maybe my manager can have better communication now. But no, even for just 2 people team, no communication AT ALL!!! 4. Upper management doesn’t know what they are doing, constantly firing some European CEO is not going to make you successful in US. And VPs, be more reasonable about what you are asking and show some respect.

2.0
Nov 13, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Team Members - Benefits - Open office environment

Cons

- Profit first, through and through. They don't even believe their own "values". - Departments are NEVER set. Teams and procedures are constantly upended or shifted around, so don't get comfortable. - Favoritism is very apparent. Some employees constantly fall behind or pass of their work, but keep moving up the ladder. - Be careful if you end up taking time off for some sort of personal situation, they'll find the smallest thing to turn into a reason to let you go. You get no warnings or chances, even if you've never been reprimanded for anything.

2.0
Oct 26, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great training opportunities Decent hourly pay

Cons

Upper management is European and still in denial about US challenges. They are disconnected from the stores and ignore the real issues as they don't want to address them. They come in your store and recite useless leadership slogans and grill you, while ignoring the root causes and being annoyed if you bring them up. Most of the District Managers are young, smart individuals, however, few of them led any people in their short career. Some of them would do anything just to please their masters and keep their well payed jobs. Huge attrition rate (around 200% a year), as most of associates are part time employees with no benefits and 20 hrs a week. Moral is miserable as on paper company promotes great values but don't walk the talk. Stores operate constantly under panic mode and Store Managers are expected to magically fix everything while being constantly under resourced. Expect 60-70 hrs a week and no life-work balance.

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