Liberty reviews

3.6

49% would recommend to a friend

(267 total reviews)

Adil Khan

67% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Liberty has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 267 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Liberty employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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267 reviews
2.0
Sep 4, 2017

Modern day slavery

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Met some cool celebrities in passing, some people are great (but very fake) stay positive and do your job! Helps your organisation skills

Cons

Never positive feedback, management is pretentious and rude. WHAT EVER YOU DO don't get sick if you wish to carry on working, you can break both legs and you'd be fired for not showing commitment

3.0
Aug 21, 2017

Great place to work, but..

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people working on the shop floor are fantastic, super friendly and down to earth, generous discount scheme and other normal perks such as pension fund etc. Generally good career opportunities, if willing to make it clear and to push for it.

Cons

Head office don't listen to people who work on the shop floor and managers, so it stunts the growth of the company, Buyers are given too much power without being held accountable and too much stress is placed onto the shop floor staff when head office/buyers make the mistakes - this all makes for a slightly stressful and chaotic environment for all. Sometimes there is lack of training for supervisors and the like.

2.0
Aug 16, 2017

Lord of the Flies

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great historic building. 99% of customers are cool, some of them really interesting people who take time to talk to you. Lots of interesting staff. Some great products(not all though). Central London location by oxford circus. Generous commission system, though this can lead to its own problems(not policed by management)

Cons

Infantile management. Like being in a primary school where all the annoying kids are playing a game of let's be managers. Used to be a fun place to work(and I do mean work- not muck about). Gradually became like every other standard retail outlet. Reading through lists of sales figures and targets in the morning meetings(what is the point of targets? we're all on commission anyway, we're trying to sell as much as we can- if we hit the target can we go home early? No? So what's the point exactly?) All the practical things needed to do the job are removed by management one by one because they don't look nice(goods in dept is now about 10 sq feet to make room for new handbag dept. Latest thing is they haven't had a goods lift for 6 months, because it flooded and they are trying to sue Thames Water... and get the money BEFORE they repair it. Jesus wept.) Working with 15 year old computers while thousands is spent on vanity projects in the buying dept., you get the idea. Constantly hassled by management over trivial things which make it clear they have no idea what goes into doing the job, even when they know that you do your job well.

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