Levi Strauss reviews

Levi's have a gift for hiring incompetent managers....there have been SO many examples over the years. Even if a manager is known to be incompetent, HR and other management take a "my hands are tied" approach. They don't take any interest in developing their employees. There's generally no room for promotion internally -they tend to hire from the outside. When it comes to performance reviews, they focus on the most petty things which are not brought to your attention at the time, nor during the mid year review process...but rather at year year end when they need to fit everyone in a bell curve distribution. Salary increases are minuscule - you literally get poor working there!

Slow processes, too much bureaucracy, lack of communication and understanding between all levels of employees, our corporate environment doesn't reflect our brand image. We need to move faster and "walk the talk". We say we want to enforce a work/life balance, but yet we don't consistently implement or support that notion with actions. We say we want to be the best - but there is a lack of passion and excitment in our environment - in order to be the best and to win you need to be fired up and inspired - we are lacking that fire.