Lidl job reviews

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• Best thing

  For the most part the team is great. Time flies whule your clocked in

  Worst thing

  Stressful. Fast paced. Not much information from head office about changes. You find out when I happens. Very profit focused company.

  3.5

  Duty manager at Lidl, March 2025

• Best thing

  The customer

  Worst thing

  Sitting at till for long periods of time

  6.6

  Shop assistant at Lidl, March 2025

• Best thing

  Better pay, helpful colleagues

  Worst thing

  Stressful work environment, always expected to do more and more

  5.0

  Employee at Lidl, March 2025

• Best thing

  The pay, discount

  Worst thing

  Long hours, breaks and holidays often interrupted, if staff go sick expect more pressure

  2.4

  Shift manager at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  - never bored so many different areas to learn
  - people are really great

  Worst thing

  - management or rather lack of
  - bad communication
  - head office do not understand working in a store and will at any point put stupid rules in place to make it harder to do your job

  3.9

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

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• Best thing

  Salary and staff in stores work so hard with you

  Worst thing

  Not enough hours in store , just working stock all the time , no work life balance at all, no support, uninspiring day to day and no thanks for anything

  2.4

  Store manager at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  The pay
  The team

  Worst thing

  Some of the managers
  Some of the staff
  Some of the expectations
  Tills

  9.0

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  Night premium

  Worst thing

  Lack of care

  4.2

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  Nothing

  Worst thing

  Don't get shift variations, the same people do the same shifts all the time. No matter how long your shift is, you only get 1 break or no breaks, get threatened by customers, managers are unapproachable, a lot of favouritism.

  4.2

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  Literally nothing

  Worst thing

  Lidl standards are way too high and if you don't perform to their standards then you're constantly being shouted at

  3.5

  Customer service assistant at Lidl, February 2025

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• Best thing

  Working for a company where I feel valued, respected and able to be the real me. Love Lidl

  Worst thing

  Can't think of anything

  10

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  Straight forward job l, good benefits and alight pay

  Worst thing

  Overworked and unfair working patterns and contracts

  5.0

  Warehouse operative at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  Payment

  Worst thing

  People
  Other members of staff
  The favouritism

  2.3

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  When there’s a good team, it’s a good day

  Worst thing

  Expecting too much from a small team. Relying on the same few people, burned out quickly

  2.6

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  People I work with

  Worst thing

  Dealing with disrespectful customers

  9.4

  Customer assistant at Lidl, February 2025

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• Best thing

  The money

  Worst thing

  Staff hour workload

  3.0

  Duty manager at Lidl, February 2025

• Best thing

  The pay

  Worst thing

  Time limits
  Stressful work
  Early hours

  5.5

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

• Best thing

  Nothing, management don’t appreciate good staff members or let them go for unfair reasons

  Worst thing

  Management favourite a lot of people leaving others out, criticism, unfair dismissals, passing blame onto employees rather than owning up to their mistakes

  2.3

  Warehouse operative at Lidl, January 2025

• Best thing

  Good pay, good hours. Job overall is really good.

  Worst thing

  Badly treated by management and not informed of changes or anything.

  2.3

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

• Best thing

  Easy work
  Good team
  Pays well hourly

  Worst thing

  Long shifts
  Always work Friday late and Sunday morning

  9.6

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

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• Best thing

  Good amount of hours

  Worst thing

  Early mornings 5am

  6.6

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

• Best thing

  Good team. Great to get along with. If you get a good area it's ideal such as tills.

  Worst thing

  Management are good but hypercritical and often lazy. Completely depends on store for the group. Head office are awful and clueless. Communication can be crap.

  9.2

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

• Best thing

  The people In work with

  Worst thing

  The customers

  9.0

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

• Best thing

  I get my contracted hours
  Decent pay

  Worst thing

  Time limits to get things done
  Not enough staff
  Get put on tills for a whole shift

  7.0

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

• Best thing

  The end of the shift

  Worst thing

  Managers with poor people skills who seem to lack the ability to interact in a positive way and struggle to build effective working relationships.
  Isn't this an important aspect of being a good manager? Seems this is not the case with Lidl.

  1.5

  Customer assistant at Lidl, January 2025

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• Best thing

  Working with people

  Worst thing

  Busy times and low staffing

  3.0

  Customer assistant at Lidl, December 2024

• Best thing

  Decent pay, friends with team

  Worst thing

  Hard work, short breaks, understaffed, unmanageable workload, uncaring and stressed management

  2.8

  Customer assistant at Lidl, December 2024

• Best thing

  The 10% discount and reasonably high pay. Discarding of the cardboard is pretty fun but they don’t have us do it as often as we should.

  Worst thing

  We are very overworked. There is 5 people on weekend mornings to get the chiller and freezer delivery unloaded. Often there’s only 6 people running the store (including people needed for 4 tills). Often you have to run or do a poor job to keep up with timings. Often the deliveries are over ordered or ordered too so so we have far too much back stock and it take longer to put out as you have to juggle the items already on the shelf to fit the new item on.

  6.8

  Customer assistant at Lidl, December 2024

• Best thing

  Cheap canteen, extra hours if required, decent rate of pay

  Worst thing

  After management restructure, new team has their favourites. Problems and issues are not addressed.

  5.0

  Warehouse operative at Lidl, November 2024

• Best thing

  The pay
  The fact that everyday is different

  Worst thing

  No matter how much you do it’s never good enough
  Only half hour break
  Haven’t received enough training

  2.6

  Shift manager at Lidl, November 2024

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• Best thing

  General people you work with and will know are nice and understanding. If you prove yourself to them by going the extra mile they will too.

  Worst thing

  Head Office and main people in charge have no respect for what you do. Recently departed with a very poor redundancy experience. Impacted how we worked as people were leaving however my workplace wasn’t allowed too fill up the empty job spots as we were “over head count”.

  Shows how much higher ups understand how much work is needed to run stuff smh.

  2.4

  Shift leader at Lidl, November 2024

• Best thing

  Fast paced, hard work, good company to work for, friendly customers.

  Worst thing

  Hard work and it’s tough to progress unless you are friendly with management.

  8.2

  Customer assistant at Lidl, November 2024

• Best thing

  The work and camaraderie amongst some people. Doing fun or interesting tasks, like remerchandising. Something new everyday

  Worst thing

  The people, whether that be customers or the team. Sometimes it is like dragging a dead tree up a hill. The seniors, sometimes the expect the unrealistic. The HQ, constant shift from one thing to another with no hours to compensate the shifts in focus- impossible plate spinning challenge…

  7.3

  Shift manager at Lidl, November 2024

• Best thing

  I get along with all of my colleagues. We are constantly busy doing different jobs all day and I love it! There's never a boring day at Lidl

  Worst thing

  We don't get paid for breaks

  9.7

  Customer assistant at Lidl, November 2024

• Worst thing

  The stresss, Wednesdays if you know you know.

  2.3

  Deputy store manager at Lidl, November 2024

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• Best thing

  Social interactions, keeps me in a schedule.

  Worst thing

  Working and picking up the phone everyday to come in and do more hours because they won’t contact me more.

  1.8

  Customer assistant at Lidl, October 2024

• Best thing

  Nothing

  Worst thing

  Everything especially the manager

  1.5

  Customer assistant at Lidl, September 2024

• Best thing

  Good pay and flexible with my needs as I have a young child at home

  Worst thing

  It's hard work and people always ring in sick

  8.2

  Customer assistant at Lidl, September 2024

• Best thing

  Keeps you fit and keeps your mind working

  Worst thing

  Managers don't listen, head offices have no idea what happens within the warehouse. Managers also protect colleagues who are not good at the job and disregard colleagues that are good at their job

  2.3

  Warehouse operative at Lidl, September 2024

• Best thing

  The staff, when everything goes well it actually quite good company to work for.

  Worst thing

  Head office have no idea what happens in store
  Nit many hours in the day but then oh having a store visit all of a sudden here's 100 more hours to give a false impression of the store

  6.1

  Deputy store manager at Lidl, August 2024

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• Worst thing

  Shift work. No time for myself anymore

  3.0

  Warehouse desk clerk at Lidl, August 2024

• Best thing

  You get paid the best out of any retailer

  Worst thing

  You’re expected to split yourself into 3 people for said pay

  5.0

  Shift manager at Lidl, June 2024

• Best thing

  Pay is decent.

  Worst thing

  Heavy workload and high expectations with minimal staff

  2.8

  Shift manager at Lidl, June 2024

• Best thing

  Working in freezer and getting extra breaks that are paid

  Worst thing

  Stressful and chaotic

  5.5

  Warehouse operative at Lidl, June 2024

• Best thing

  Money

  Worst thing

  People
  Working environment
  Work ethic

  3.0

  Shift manager at Lidl, June 2024

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• Best thing

  Working retail know your helping people have daily essential

  Worst thing

  It’s messy and people don’t realise how dangerous some machines are and absolute disrespect of others and there problems

  1.5

  Warehouse operative at Lidl, June 2024

• Best thing

  The team I work with

  Worst thing

  Workload, unrealistic expectations during work time to complete tasks, lack of support with apprenticeships

  4.7

  Assistant manager at Lidl, June 2024

• Best thing

  Pay,30 days holidays rising to 35 days after 4 years discounts for the sector highest pay.

  Worst thing

  Rude customers have to work quickly no 1 day is the same

  7.1

  Shop assistant at Lidl, June 2024

• Best thing

  going home part

  Worst thing

  every thing

  2.3

  Warehouse operative at Lidl, May 2024

• Best thing

  Mu collegues

  Worst thing

  My manager and some costumers

  2.6

  Customer assistant at Lidl, May 2024