Good experience - Educator lululemon Employee Review

3.0
24 May 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Based on how the store does, you earn a daily & monthly bonus -- it's a team bonus so it takes out the cut-throat mentality of most sales positions. They pay for your workouts, provide you with life-goal coaching. If you want to see change within the company, it's pretty easy to get ahold of who you need to talk to up at corporate , but seeing changes made from your feedback is a completely different story (might not ever happen). We do talk with the designers once a month to give them guest product feedback, but who knows it if they actually listen.

Cons

I know some people that are Educators for 2+ years PART TIME and are never offered fulltime status, even if they have been promised it by management. Product quality has really gone down the toilet over the past year or so , so it's hard to stand by a brand that isn't 100% transparent. If you have any plans of working for corporate, your best bet is to go somewhere else to get experience (especially if it's specialized) and then come back and apply for jobs at corporate. It's next to impossible to start as an Educator and move up to corporate without having to put up with years of BS and become a Key Leader, ASM, and SM first. Very frustrating.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The benefits with the sweaty Pursuits is good and the insurance is good too! You get a team that you get to put together and get to know them and see what works for you guys to be successful in a processing shift!

Cons

The nights are long and very overworked. They ask a lot from you and usually they put the business before you. It’s always we need this and that from the managers but not actually taking time to help or to actually see that we are trying our best and if they actually worked a shift with us and saw the struggles they would understand more. They think it’s easy, when the weight of the store depends on us. You are also qualified as a Guest Experience lead since you have to do both trainings so the management do over utilise that and you will be doing two jobs. Even though it says in the description to support the floor but there’s a difference between supporting from time to time and doing it all the time where you are running the floor and the back at the same time but they’ll say “oh why isn’t this done?” Maybe because you’ve told me to help you out ? The are also very selective about who moves up to be a manager. No work life balance at all!

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