Lidl reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(8,070 total reviews)

Kenneth McGrath

73% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Lidl has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 8,070 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lidl 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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8K reviews
2.0
Apr 30, 2016

Beware of the fake reviews...

Recommend
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Pros

You will make $50-60k as an analyst and $80-$90k as a manager at Lidl regardless if you have zero experience. They have good health insurance and vested 401k. There is a gym in the business as well that you receive a discounted rate at $25/month. You will get the experience to travel to Europe for 7 weeks or longer. Some employees are asked to go for 6 months or longer. The office is new and you are given a new iphone and surface upon hire.

Cons

The company culture and work environment is the worst that I have ever encountered. You will be forced to work until 8pm, come in at 6am, stay for meetings that run until 11pm and work on the weekends. If you do not fit into the culture you will be made to feel uncomfortable. Many of the employees are friends outside of work and go out together or are dating. Everyone talks about everyone else. There is a lot of gossip. Many employees are unhappy and there has been an influx of people leaving. This is why HR has had to continuously write fake positive reviews to help offset the real ones. The sad part is that many of the negative reviews are written by people who are current employees. With so many people leaving, they have lots of openings and need the positive reviews to help lure new ones in. When giving presentations you will be ripped apart. They also consistently refer to the American consumer as stupid.

1.0
Nov 15, 2015

Too Bad Zero Star an Option?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Looks decent on your resume due to rapid growth.. but at the end of the day.. it's still a discount grocery store.

Cons

Where do I begin? Company is completely upside down. Men (and only men) get promoted based on how serious they are and if they drink the company kool-aid. Company preaches "values" until they are blue in the face, primarily because they completely disregard them when it comes down to it. Respect? Yeah, if that means working 90 hours a week with no comprehension of life outside of work. Responsibility? Sure, with no oversight or feedback. Don't do things the way they expect, even though you haven't been told what that is? You're fired with no warning. Rewards? Ummm... they don't exist. We had casual Friday once a quarter and even that was taken away due to "less productivity" on this day. Trust? HAHA. That's the funniest one of all. Trust that you will be in the office with no option of working remote, 8am-6pm standard hours at a MINIMUM, and treated like you eat, sleep and breath this company with no respect. Run away, fast. It's just not worth it.

1.0
Mar 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are party animals - key word animals - if that's your kinda thing. Otherwise, if you're sane, it'll have you running the opposition direction

Cons

Hands down the WORST place I've Ever worked. You have white male executives ONLY who sit around during meetings and chastise others. They have NO Sr. Experience in their discipline that they oversee. They break every rule they set for the company employees e.g. smoking in company car. It's a dog-eat-dog mentality. If you are a young male 6 feet tall with blonde hair and blue eyes, you MaY have a shot. Or if you're a women with same line up and short skirts and fake breasts, you might be okay. The Arian race at its finest. If you're female and minority, don't bother. People are having affairs in management and no one is doing anything about it. Employees are being bullied by line managers, vp etc. and no one is doing anything about it for fear of retaliation and losing their job or being "forced" to resign. Very Long hours, no formal recognition, and titles that are useless. A manager is doing a job of sr. Manager and sr. Manager job of director and director job of vp and so on. They do that so they can pay less. All the reviews that say pay is good is because they're 25 yrs old and getting 80k!!! But worked to death or until they have a nervous breakdown and then they become useless and discarded. PLEASE Don't come here. I'm resigning soon.

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