You Will Be Assimilated - Corporate Manager Lidl Employee Review

2.0
Jul 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

International travel; exposure to foreign nationals; wide project scope; exotic deliverables

Cons

Misogynistic; racist; sexist. LIDL Is a fear culture and does not promote based on merit, but rather based on longevity, so you encounter a lot of dispassionate and sub-par colleagues. The entire organization is so disenfranchised and siloed, you seldom understand what the other departments are doing. LIDL was resistant to assimilating to American methodologies and business practices, that it drew the ire of business partners and stakeholders alike. LIDL is also strangely suffocating. You must learn things the LIDL way, and the Only Way, and No Other Way to the exclusion of other procedures -- this makes it impossible to transfer what you've learned to other American companies. Also, the salary was below market for this area.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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