Big promises, bigger letdown - Anonymous employee lululemon Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people are great but there's lots of talk and not much walk with the leadership. free classes are great. discount ok but don't count of getting it for your spouse.

Cons

Work Life Balance is a myth, especially on the design floor. Don't be surprised if you are asked to work through the weekend or on holidays. Half the work is getting through broken processes and the rest if just to catch up. Much of the upper management does not come from experience but rather from just being at lululemon for so many years - old & out of touch. Expectations vary greatly depending on who's managing. Too many random initiatives going on at once.

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The nights are long and very overworked. They ask a lot from you and usually they put the business before you. It’s always we need this and that from the managers but not actually taking time to help or to actually see that we are trying our best and if they actually worked a shift with us and saw the struggles they would understand more. They think it’s easy, when the weight of the store depends on us. You are also qualified as a Guest Experience lead since you have to do both trainings so the management do over utilise that and you will be doing two jobs. Even though it says in the description to support the floor but there’s a difference between supporting from time to time and doing it all the time where you are running the floor and the back at the same time but they’ll say “oh why isn’t this done?” Maybe because you’ve told me to help you out ? The are also very selective about who moves up to be a manager. No work life balance at all!

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