Lands' End reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(764 total reviews)
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Andrew McLean

68% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Lands' End has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 764 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lands' End employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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764 reviews
1.0
Apr 15, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Company History. Buildings (environment). Salary is OK.

Cons

The workload is staggering. You're in meetings at least 5 hours per day (often more than that), so you never have time to actually do work. You have to read email during meetings, because you have no choice. Even so, you'll spend all night reading email or doing work. So it always really comes down to which 10% of your assigned work will you actually do, and who are you going to aggravate today because you couldn't help them? The amount of time you spend in unproductive meetings in mind-numbing, and I spent probably 45-60 minutes / day simply managing my calendar because of the constant rescheduling. If you have a family or a life outside of work, that will come to a screeching halt. The other thing about being in IT here is that you are always on-call - and I mean always, because there are so few back ups. And most of the time, you're just putting out fires, and figuring out which one to work on next, instead of being proactive and doing things that would make the technology more efficient. Staffing, or lack of, is a huge issue, and it made the morale there really bad toward the end. They just don't want spend the money and hire anyone. I finally left because of too many reasons to list here, but I'm in a much better situation now.

1.0
Apr 14, 2015

Company is going downhill fast

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Buildings are nice / Campus-like.

Cons

It's understaffed everywhere, and not just a little bit. If you're in IT, you will not have a life, but you will work 60-70-80 hours / week. Company hasn't paid bonuses in at least ten years. No training, no tuition reimbursement, no mentoring, no professional development programs, and the technology is really, really old. And being in tiny Dodgeville, there's almost nowhere to go for lunch. My commute to Madison was 55 minutes each way.

5.0
Apr 11, 2015

Loved it!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers were friendly and encouraging, as was supervisory staff. Opportunities for advancement early on, if you are asked to stay on as a permanent employee from seasonal! Flexible scheduling, great for college students!

Cons

I really do not have any complaints about this company.

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