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Well Paid but you work in return.
Store Manager (Former Employee) - Dublin - 30 December 2020
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The most useful review selected by IndeedWell paid with opportunities to progress. No work life balance and a fast paced stressful environment to work in.
Pros
Good Salary, Company car, good exposure to managing
Cons
No work life balance. Working with limited resources. No proper support from area managers
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Poor management, terrible work life balance, zero room for career progression
no (Former Employee) - Ireland - 31 January 2017
Poor management, terrible work life balance, zero room for career progression, nepotism practiced on daily basis. Very negative culture, people not respected or appreciated for overtime, long hours etc. Unfair process of promotions. Terrible place to work.
Pros
Gym in work building
Cons
Long work hours, poor work life balance, poor management practices, nepotism practiced on daily basis, lack of respect for colleagues
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Do not Work Here
DSM (Former Employee) - Kinsale, County Cork - 26 January 2017
As a deputy Store Manager it is very stressful and hard to take ownership and be responsible when the company do not train there staff. Stores are not staffed sufficiently in order to complete all tasks. This company will take your soul away.
Pros
Good pay
Cons
Long hours and no quality of life
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Concentration camp
Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Newbridge, County Kildare - 10 January 2017
Worst mistake of my life taking this job. Starting at 1 pm and not allowed leave till everything is done which usually was 1 or 2am. Ideal job for someone who has no life, no partner and definitely no kids. A robot basically.
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Great place to work
Store Assistant (Former Employee) - Castlebar, County Mayo - 15 December 2016
The management are really friendly and approachable. Lidl offer great opportunities to all of their workers and you can work your way up in the company.
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Good
Store Assistant (Former Employee) - Dublin - 30 November 2016
Good benefits and salary too.Perect place to work for young people whose looking for new opportunities and experience
Pros
Good money
Cons
Long hours
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Challenging and faced pace environment
Sales Operations Manager (Current Employee) - Dublin - 23 November 2016
Very target orientated, figures driven company. Full of extremely motivated employees who want to progress. Anything is possible attitude. Work life balance is an area for improvement for the company.
Pros
Salary
Cons
Long hours
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Mentally draining
Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Mullingar, County Westmeath - 27 August 2016
Worked for 2 years within company very fast paced work environment too much expected hours vary from week to week can be cut anytime depending on how busy the day is!often got phone calls from management to come to work on days off every week and if I had other plans and refused hours would be cut the week after to advance in this company seem to depend which country your from often had no breaks in a shift this including a 12 hour shift would stay far away from this company if I'm been honest
Pros
Kept busy
Cons
Management companies policies
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Nightmare to work for
Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Cork - 15 August 2016
its a nightmare to work for. No proper training is provided and you been put on pack out straight away. There are time limit for everything even they would except on your first day you should do like who is working for last 10 years. Same goes with bakery. Believe me you dont want be be in bakery. No proper training provided and on your second day manager will come to you and bully you why you are late. Managers and trainee managers are bullies. They would bully you until you quite the job.
11.50 per hour but you will work until you collapsed
Pros
Big Company
Cons
Bad Management
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Patience and hard work
Store Assistant (Former Employee) - Greystones, County Wicklow - 1 June 2016
I worked with an amazing group of people which you can always count on, they made the most stressful day at work bearable.
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Challenging but fun
Sales/Store Assistant (Current Employee) - Castlebar, County Mayo - 19 May 2016
A challenging job in retail due as you do quite a bit of everything from operating checkouts to stocking shelves and to be done within certain speeds but I learned a lot about the importance of teamwork and communication throughout my time in LIDL. management and co-workers are very pleasant at all times. Morning shifts start very early and evening shift can finish very late, you're kept busy and the time flies by.
Pros
Approachable management and staff
Cons
Very early starts on mornings, late finishes on evenings
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Lidl Ireland- Fast-Paced Environment
Store Manager (Former Employee) - Newbridge, Ireland - 11 April 2016
A typical day in Lidl was constantly changing and was challenging from all aspects.
Maintaining a tight ship was not always easy but I thrived on the constant challenges.
My job title was a store manager but it was imperative to work as a team player to gain respect from our staff and to get the jobs done. I had to liaise daily with head office on store productivity and any problems which arose.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Lidl as I learned a lot about the business and gained the confidence in knowing I was capable of such a sought after position.
But the hardest part of the job for me was the strict time schedules, there was not one week that went past that I didn't have to do overtime( up to 10 hours weekly not paid after maybe a 12-15 hour shift) due to the business in store.
Pros
Great Money
Cons
Extremely Long Hours
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Exposure to alot and work extremely hard
Middle manager (Former Employee) - Kildare - 21 January 2016
Culture is very productivity focused which goes beyond a high performing team. Those that are high performers are the bench mark for the average rather than seen as an over achiever. High customer service and high productivity also do not go together.
Career progression and advancement is definitely a huge part of Lidl and any employee who is Career hungry and wants to progress can easily do so. A lot of training is provided however embedment of training could be improved.
Salary and benefits are exemplary and employees are well taken care of in that respect.
Hardest part of the job was dealing with senior managers who were not personable. Most enjoyable part was seeing employees achieve their goals.
Pros
Salary, Benefits, colleagues, professional exposure, career progression
Cons
Long hours, expectations, lack of people awareness
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hard worker.
Store Assistant (Former Employee) - Cork, C - 12 September 2015
:split shift and busy day,working 15 to 16 hour day.
a new experience dealing a costumers.
my co worker was good.
the hardest part of the job was starting 5 o'clock in the morning.
the most enjoyable part was when you talking to costumers.
Pros
lestining music
Cons
busy work
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Bad atmosphere to work in
Head Office Facilities Coordinator (Former Employee) - Newbridge, KE - 3 July 2015
zero work life balance
if they could get ya to work 24 hours a day they would,and justify it by saying...."well everyone does it"
bad atmosphere to work in, everybody has their own agenda,staff relationships are non existence
to sum the place up in 1 line i would say lidl is a comunist company run by capitalists
Pros
none
Cons
Long hours, bad atmosphere
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sales assistant (Former Employee) - Leixlip, KE - 26 March 2015
I learned a lot about a fast paced retail environment with my time in lidl. It was customer driven and full on. there were king working hours including early morning, late evenings and night shifts.
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Positiva en general
DEPENDIENTA/CAJERA (Former Employee) - Kenmare, Co. Kerry. Irlanda - 21 April 2014
Mi experiencia en Lidl Irlanda fue gratificante en muchos aspectos. En primer lugar fue sorprendentemente fácil conseguir el trabajo pese a que no poseía experiencia previa en el sector de la alimentación y a que el inglés no es mi lengua materna aunque lo manejo con soltura.
Desde el principio se preocuparon en enseñarme todos los aspectos de cada uno de los departamentos en tienda, desde la reposición, a la panadería, cartelería, marketing del supermercado, etc... hasta el manejo de caja donde finalmente fue donde más tiempo pasé. La relación con los jefes/encargados fue muy fluida, siempre con voluntad de cooperación y nunca sentí que fueran distantes ni que me trataran con superioridad.
Con el resto del equipo también había buen ambiente ya que eso era lo que hacía que el trabajo saliera bien en el tiempo estipulado, ya que está cadena alemana trabaja bajo objetivos de eficiencia. Quizás lo más díficil al principio fue adaptarme al sistema de trabajo europeo que me resultó bastante diferente al español pero eso a la misma vez lo encontré realmente positivo y enriquecedor.
Lo que más me gustó fue trabajar en un ambiente internacional, aprender otra profesión y la cultura del derecho y el deber del trabajador que se respetaba y convivían perfectamente.
Pros
Horas extras pagadas, seguro médico, promoción interna, estabilidad laboral, formación
Cons
presión por cumplir los objetivos de tiempo y eficiencia
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hard working and fun
New Ross. Cashier and floor (Former Employee) - wexford - 3 April 2014
Very busy shop, starting an 8 hour shift id prepare myself for the continuous flow of people. Staff had job roles such as the tills or shop floor. The shop is kept as tidy as possible so this means we would work at speed and on our own initiative. My co. workers were brilliant, we all worked well together.
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Hard work but paid well.
Store Anchor (Former Employee) - Dungarvan, Dublin - 25 March 2014
I was promoted after nine months - there was always an opportunity for promotion, advancement or transfer to another store etc. internal opportunities with the company are very good.
Management culture is better than other places as lots of managers have worked up the chain and therefore know what they are asking of their staff - obviously some people are always going to be unfair, or let a promotion go to their heads. But there was always support for staff from other aspects of management and problems could be resolved quickly and efficiently.
Working here is hard, long hours, very stressful environment - its like being in a gym, doing a total workout for the length of your shift and you are being bombarded by questions from customers who did not care how much you are sweating unless you are sweating for them. Found working in smaller town stores much better than working in the city - city stores carry the same amount of staff despite the fact that there is a much larger footfall through the doors. There is also not much attention paid to whether or not he staff on duty can physically do the job at hand - as some staff members prove themselves better than others they will find more pressure being placed on them to carry others. For example, recent changes to till speed records - In previous years each member of staff was required to scan thirty-five items per minute through the checkout, this is achievable with practice, I averaged forty itemsper minute without trying after four years with the company, but there are others who still cannot reach twenty items per minute. -
Pros
Very good wages.
Cons
Long hours, exploitation of hard workers.
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ok place to work
store assistant (Former Employee) - charleville - 5 March 2014
mornings pack-out orders
evenings close down shop small pack out for next morning
good staff
no respect
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good
picker, goods in (Former Employee) - charleville - 5 March 2014
very short or very long hours depend on season
good co-workers
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