It's a management cult - Commodity Insights ALDI Employee Review

2.0
Oct 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

+Projects are often fun, engaging and interesting. +Very young organization, as an early-30 you often find yourself to be the most senior in your group. +Pretty diverse community (maybe even too diverse for some).

Cons

-Due to the average age there's not much business professionalism, which often puts the company to shame in front of partners. -Office architecture and traditions are at an incredibly low niveau. -It's a two-tier caste system with managers on the top and untouchable employees on the bottom. Those tiers can be described as separate "flat" hierarchies, but they are totally different experiences. -Lots of wishful thinking, sunk cost fallacies, unmeasured risks and other classic system issues that happen without appropriate feedback and control mechanisms in place.

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5.0
May 31, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast paced. Work with good people

Cons

micromanagement. Unrealistic expectations sometimes. Overal ok

5.0
Oct 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

+ industry leading wages Associates - $12/hr, Shift Mgr - $16/hr, SMT - $23/hr, Store Manager - $75,000+/yr + great work environment + excellent training + health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k + 40-50 hr/wk with paid overtime Very fast paced so work hours fly by. I loved working at Aldi. The pay was great! Benefits great! Was training to be a store manager so a lot was expected of me but I was totally up for it. My store manager loved my work, associates loved my fairness, customers loved me.

Cons

+ work/life balance + walked 28,000 steps/day!!! Never thought I would be fired for clocking in only minutes late!!

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