Lidl reviews

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.

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.