If you’re reading this because Lidl has recently reposted associate / junior buyer roles, just know nearly every single person hired into this role in the last 3 years has either quit on bad terms, requested a transfer to another department and been blacklisted by buying ‘leadership’ just to be walked out when their “time to transfer” ran out, or was laid off.
In nearly 15 years of work experience, I have never been treated worse by colleagues, managers, and leadership. From my first week, I was mocked, hazed, ignored, and made to feel less than because the department wanted to humble me - with the EVP going as far as making a sarcastic remark directed at me during a department-wide meeting.
The men in my former department brag about “group chats” where they sexualize, objectify, and rank the women in the department. In fact, sexual harassment is so rampant that the international office has ended their European exchange program because “American women fight back” and they don’t want legal trouble. And if you do report to your managers, they will tell you to keep it to yourself or be fired.
Performance reviews are so ambiguous and entirely dependent on your tenure and how many happy hours you attend. You will not receive measurable goals for improvement - and if you did, the goal post is constantly moving anyway.
Lidl will burn you out and then gaslight you. I would not recommend working here to my worst enemy, but you likely won’t have the chance anyway as they are destined to fail. If you do, keep your resume current. Quiet layoffs are a constant regardless of tenure or performance, and then they’ll just tell everyone you were a loser and it’s just the “winning team” left.