Lidl reviews

- Not everyone that works at HQ can park at HQ (you have to park in a garage a mile away from the building and walk to take the bus to the office). Most of the parking spaces are reserved for more tenured employees and senior management. - No free coffee. - Many senior managers are inexperienced in managing people, unprofessional, unethical, and are incapable of taking accountability for the work product of their teams. Senior managers are very willing to throw their teams under the bus, rather than manage conflict head-on. - Very hierarchical. Employees don't have real access to their senior managers and above. Analysts and specialists are not involved in meetings or discussions about topics that directly affect their work, and then they are held accountable for work product that did not live up to expectations set in said meetings/discussions. - People are forced out through performance management techniques that have no merit or documentation. - When you are involved in meetings, a lot of the time people talk in circles, asserting power or control, and nothing gets accomplished. It is a big waste of time. - People in the position to make decisions and lead department initiatives are poor communicators. - HR as a whole is not really a resource. There are some helpful people, but most are ineffective, especially management.

- They will discriminate against you until you start getting physically/mentally sick. They will pick on various things about you and it will get to the point where you will start questioning yourself. At least this is how the Purchasing Admin Department is. Based on previous reviews, it does not look any better in other departments. But, I can't speak for those. - The assignments don't ever make any sense. They are either for elementary kids or something you can't do because you don't have the resources yet. It's more than just busy work. It's stupid busy work that doesn't go anywhere. One of my assignments was to convert pounds to kilograms in an Excel file (ridiculous). You will be rated on this. - Again, keep in mind the tasks assigned are below your level, but so is management as well. It will take some time to notice because they pretend to be busy out of breath professionals. It's their thing, to seem like they are running around. You will be set up in the worst possible way. Anything you know better than your supervisors, which will be 99% of the time, you will be humiliated for it somehow. They will take your ideas as their own and run with it at the end. You will start to watch your back constantly, because you outsmarted them, and in their eyes are a threat. - Lidl had employees send questions to the board with their concerns and all of them were about "the hostile work environment and supervisors being bullies." - In the Purchasing Admin department, most people are performing job functions they would have never applied for. The VP hires highly qualified people and then turns them into "Data Entry" clerks without even considering their strengths and the fact that she lied during the whole interview process. You will be bullied and your position will be TBD, while in reality you are just a data entry clerk. They will make sure you feel worthless so you stoop low to their level or below.