The Lidl Way - Anonymous employee Lidl Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company health insurance was decent

Cons

HQ "leadership" is a puppet role and does not involve any actual leading. But how can it? None of them know a single thing about retail in the US. Management positions are reserved for incompetent, insecure, Yes Men (gender neutral) to serve as overseers and personal bullies for the lower level employees. Despite using more company time (pointless meetings) and resources (sizable salary), they do the least amount of work, if any. It always a was a running joke/genuine question to ask "what does [name] even do?" Everybody spends all their time working on/talking about/revising/reviewing/documenting The Process instead of doing acutal work. You would think from the amount of time spent on it that the stores sell processes. Sadly, if they did, they would still be as low quality as their products.

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