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
Oct 26, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great training opportunities Decent hourly pay

Cons

Upper management is European and still in denial about US challenges. They are disconnected from the stores and ignore the real issues as they don't want to address them. They come in your store and recite useless leadership slogans and grill you, while ignoring the root causes and being annoyed if you bring them up. Most of the District Managers are young, smart individuals, however, few of them led any people in their short career. Some of them would do anything just to please their masters and keep their well payed jobs. Huge attrition rate (around 200% a year), as most of associates are part time employees with no benefits and 20 hrs a week. Moral is miserable as on paper company promotes great values but don't walk the talk. Stores operate constantly under panic mode and Store Managers are expected to magically fix everything while being constantly under resourced. Expect 60-70 hrs a week and no life-work balance.

2.0
Jul 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

International travel; exposure to foreign nationals; wide project scope; exotic deliverables

Cons

Misogynistic; racist; sexist. LIDL Is a fear culture and does not promote based on merit, but rather based on longevity, so you encounter a lot of dispassionate and sub-par colleagues. The entire organization is so disenfranchised and siloed, you seldom understand what the other departments are doing. LIDL was resistant to assimilating to American methodologies and business practices, that it drew the ire of business partners and stakeholders alike. LIDL is also strangely suffocating. You must learn things the LIDL way, and the Only Way, and No Other Way to the exclusion of other procedures -- this makes it impossible to transfer what you've learned to other American companies. Also, the salary was below market for this area.

1.0
Jun 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Sticking to a 40-hour work week. Health benefits are fairly decent. 5% match on 401(k)

Cons

Pay is incredibly meager at the lower levels, below what is standard for the job. The job description is not accurate at all of the actual work to be done. As an administrator the pay is $39k. However, a fellow administrator told his line manager he was leaving who then offered him $44-45k to stay. This shows the company only "appreciates" its employees if they are on the way out. The culture here is toxic with the constant rotating door of employees across the board.

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