Li & Fung Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Li & Fung

Pros – Employees are very nice and from diverse backgrounds. Great office in a great prime location. They have a few ameneties in their offices for employees. They're showrooms are very nice.

Cons – Very low importance for the employee as an individual. Management often times overlooked the work put in by employees. Very low pay in almost all working positions.

Advice to Senior Management – Get to know your employees and treat them with respect. Recognize that people have a needtobe commended and rewarded for hard work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Li & Fung

Pros – They have up to date design computer software, an effective and knowledgeable IT department, a budget for extensive travel if you work your way up the ladder, and several different kinds of departments in house, such as graphic lab and sewing room, so you don't have to outsource most things

Cons – Virtually no help from HR, massive layoffs every year, revolving door type of company, promotions and raises promised and never granted, or granted only to management's favorites, dark offices with no windows inside, late hours, lack of positive vibe and general enthusiasm. Not well managed as tasks are always off schedule and late and workers are made to spend a lot of time on projects that really weren't a priority.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your worker's needs and level of happiness.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Li & Fung full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – -Most Professional company.
Every talented employee is well rewarded.
This company provides you a job satisfaction.

Cons – Lack of confidence in Senior management about the capabilities of India, they always favor to China.

Advice to Senior Management – To develop confidence in India and give them equal opportunities for growth.
Initiate China vendors to set up their factories in India for the products where North America or Western Europe have imposed high anti dumping duties for the products from China.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Li & Fung full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The co. aims to sustain people even in bad economic situation ,Conducts good training programmes.Gives good environment and facilities.

Cons – The appraisal system of co. is very bad as partiality and favouritism prevails.There is absolutely no role of hr team.

Advice to Senior Management – Create performance based appraisals so that there is justucs to performance of all and people are judged equally without any prejudice.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Li & Fung full-time for less than a year

Pros – - Basically no competitors in the industry
- Public multinational company - looks good on CV
- Many internal transfer opportunities

Cons – - Traditional and hierarchical management
- Poor employee benefits
- No sense of belonging

Advice to Senior Management – care about your people and actually mean it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Li & Fung full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great Opportunities
Lot of travel opportunities to factories and other countries
Decent Pay
Exposure to many brands

Cons – Too controlled by HO
Quick decisions citing 'strategic reasons' irrespective of how it affects employees
Too many unnecessary sheets / charts

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Li & Fung full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – the world's biggest supply chain operator in consumer goods and a blue chip MNC listed in HKEX;
huge customer and supplier bases
visionary MDs

Cons – promotion depends much on your direct boss
politics in middle management
sizing down headquarters
training

Current Employee – been working at Li & Fung full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – big name to work with
different type of culture is theri all together.

Cons – on our level not much of oppturnity to travel
full power of taking decision of our own account
internat systems are so much that one cannot do their job perfectly.

Advice to Senior Management – They should see their employe hardwork and how do they work.
They should not review their empolyies based on their how close they are with them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Li & Fung full-time for less than a year

Pros – Better overseas opportunity, Challenging Work dynamics, articulate job description, Creative outlook for work

Cons – Slow Growth and Less diverse opportunity in Pakistan as we face governmental taxes and heavy duties levied on exports and shipments, Labor Laws and unfair Wages provided to labors

Advice to Senior Management – Provide better Comp and Ben packages for Employees and introduce new techniques to curtail slow production and sourcing in Pakistan. Create opportunity for retail sales in Pakistan to favor our economic growth

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Li & Fung full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – LF has large orders with many factories, so it's easier to get leverage to meet delivery times and low prices as a merchandiser.
Every department in each country has their own expertise and factory relationships.

Cons – Poor use of technology - a lot of time wasted on data entry into a redundant order process and tracking system.
Company strategy doesn't really trickle down to the junior employees.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company