Levi Strauss Reviews

Pros

People there are very chill and are willing to give you the time of day even as an intern. People work hard but work/life balance seemed to be pretty good.

Cons

The IT and technology tends to fall behind, but that is to be expected in a retail/fashion company.

Pros

Local company, evolved in the community, decent pay, great benefits, office causal environment, friendly co-workers, on-site training courses.

Cons

Lack of management training for mid-level employees, IT solution are low on the "value" list. Large corp office, hard to get noticed.

Advice to Senior Management

More training is needed for management, most managers are good at handling the task they are in charge of, but have very poor people skills...Levi's expects Managers to be good at both. Think it would work better for everyone if they had management teams in which one person focused on product, the other on the people in any given department.

Pros

Flexible hours
Promote work life balance
Company true to their mission and values
Involved in the community

Cons

Manager was unclear about expectations and goals of position
Alluded to opportunities that were unavailable

Advice to Senior Management

Be honest and up front

Pros

Good work/ life balance. Great people to work with. Good heritage

Cons

Very little opportunity to advance career. Many people stay in same position for 10 years and are ok with that. I wasn't ok with that as I have ambition. The global reorg could make the company completely fail and has very little regard for global employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Connect with the employees, say hello

Pros

Great product, innovative company, fun environment

Cons

Retail hours. Weekends, holidays, nights

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up

Pros

Good place to gain work experience
Co-workers are friendly
Store manager is kind and personable and easy to talk to

Cons

Hired too many people for the season and cut everyone's hours; only worked two hours one week instead of eight, while when i started I worked 12 hours a week.
The person who hired me didn't exactly train me, just kind of threw me out there, which wasn't completely terrible but it would've been better had I had some sort of formal training besides movies.

Advice to Senior Management

the management isn't terrible and I really like the store manager, she seems like a genuinely nice person and was there to help me when I needed it

Pros

Good co-worker, grate work environment and work-life balance.

Cons

Its a little bit hard to get promotion.

Advice to Senior Management

bring more young energetic professionals in.

Pros

Casual and fun atmosphere! The dress code rocks and they give you free jeans (2 pairs your first yr. then one pair every anniv. year).
No high pressure selling required; you get to actually enjoy your customers and make great connections.
Communication from upper mgt./Corporate is consistent, however their communication style is a little condescending.
Levi's is a global brand so you feel proud representing the company.

Cons

Too many checklists: the Opening/Closing checklist contains alot of minutae, and they need to change the name of this checklist - "Rituals" is a word with negative connotations.
The hours required to get your job done can be very long and tiring (10-12 hrs./day).
The POS register system is archaic and they are still using paper gift certificates.
No respect for mgrs. work/life balance. They want you to be married to the job.

Advice to Senior Management

"Edit to Amplify."

Pros

Focused business sense being strategic in thinkiing and planning. Good moral and ethical practices. Opportunities to earn bonus based on individual and company performance,. Good Benefits. Semi-flexible hours, with the opportunity to work remotely. Casual envirnoment, good employee discount. Supportive of the community with Community Involvement Team working to support chariities. Globally volunteer day where all are asked to volunteer in the communiity.

Cons

Fair bit of financial reporting required without the proper systems in place. US counterparts not always remembering to include Candian affiliate in sharing of information.

Pros

Company is headed in new direction which is always exciting. Great people with flexible work life balance such as option to work from home some days. Pay is well above what industry normbut this could also attribute to financial shortcomings of company growth.

Cons

With new CEO, strategy and where the company is going is in question. Some have left due to this. A lot of grayness in company model.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many highly over paid, under qualified people in leadership roles. Reinvest back into getting market share.