Completely lack of recognition - Anonymous employee Lidl Employee Review

2.0
Feb 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Cool mixed/open environment - Young workforce and lots of exciting people to meet and learn from - Willingness to try new technology and systems

Cons

- Outdated: Suits only and no work from home - Promotion: This is the most absurd part in Lidl US. People who got promoted are either putting in 16 hours/day (of course Saturday and Sunday count!). Lots of people got promoted after 4 or 5 months and they have no ideas what they are doing. These people are super young with unproven results yet but provided title "Senior manager". - The real "senior" management team is favorable on gender. I hate this say this but this is what I experienced during my time here. - Management team fails on recognizing hard working employees and believes as they think each person will need 2 years to adapt to multiple projects and can be assigned to new role. I have proven results from what was asked at the beginning but I had to leave in disappointment because that was a complete lie.

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