Don't expect "Balance" when working for yoga company - Senior Manager lululemon Employee Review

3.0
12 Sept 2008
Recommend
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Pros

1. Progressive and liberal culture. Lots of free speech and independence amongst the staff 2. Young staff makes the company feel energetic 3. Friendships made easily amongst staff and often spill over to personal life. 4. Free yoga and fitness classes for all staff, in any city you work in 5. Generous staff discount 6. A relatively strong allowance for independent decision making 7. Lots of opportunity even if you lack the academic or professional training 8. Staff rewarding is part of the culture and even small initiatives are recognized 9. There are lots of training opportunities available though they can be repetitive

Cons

1. Every employee must work on the retail floor at least 1x weekly. This limits career growth when you do not want to be on the retail floor, but still enjoy the company. 2. The salaries are too low, across the country 3. 50% of your salary is commission based 4. Your boss will likely be young and relatively untrained. 5. Vacation time is very low 6. You must work weekends, nights, most holidays, Christmas eve and Boxing Day 7. The often touted values of health and balance are largely over stated. 8. There is heavy judgment and ultimately, an inability to advance, if you do not participate in the Landmark forum

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5.0
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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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