Levi Strauss reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(3,692 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Levi Strauss has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,692 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Levi Strauss 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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2.0
May 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance. Good company reputation. Good team work environment.

Cons

Senior Management failed to turn around the company over 15 years of declining/no growth in sales. Company is always being restructured with employees being layoff every year for the last 10 years. Every new management team came in and repeated the same mistakes the previous teams had failed before. Every CEO promised big sales and earning growth but delivered little. This latest round of restructuring may put the company on the path of destruction.

1.0
Dec 25, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My co-workers are generally very nice people and I have made several friends there. They sell nice clothes and employees get a decent discount if they feel inclined to spend their measly paychecks on Levi's products.

Cons

All but two of the managers are extremely rude, unhelpful, condescending, and simply terrible at their jobs. I've never experienced worse management at any of my former retail jobs, and I'm shocked by their incompetence. I have had so many terrible experiences with the managers that I I am going to contact the Human Resource department because I have several very valid complaints, and complaining to any of the managers (including the store manager) has proved to be a waste of my time. The managers also have the bad habit of altering employee's schedules with very little notice, and they never apologize for their mistakes. There have been several times where I have come in to work when I was scheduled only to find out that I'm suddenly not scheduled for that day! Instead of apologizing, which is the least they could do, they have told me to go home. I've wasted a lot of time and money for public transportation because of this. Also, the pay is terrible, and I can't comprehend why people are not paid by commission, yet they are supposed to work extremely hard to sell more and more products. Where is the incentive to do so if they are treated horribly and are not going to be paid more if they perform incredibly well? As a cashier I don't have to worry about this, but I think it's an unethical business practice. I've lost respect for the company because of the way employees are treated.

1.0
Jul 27, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pretty chill atmosphere, the product is easy sell, the employees are laid back. Also, the customers are more understanding than the average needy customer.

Cons

Besides the lack of benefits, the unorganized employee training, and the incompetent managing staff, Levi's is strategically inferior in terms of both customer care and employee care. By monitoring the individual sales of each sales associate without any incentives it not only creates quite a nuisance, it also breeds unnecessary hostility amongst the sales associates because it is very likely that associates will inadvertently "steal sales" and/or try to negotiate with the cashiers "boost" their sales.

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