Fun environment w/ good core values - Key Leader lululemon Employee Review

3.0
24 Oct 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Every employee has a dynamic hybrid role which allows for room to experiment, fail and grow. The pay is competitive in the retail environment, although low compared to most other industries. Perks are good in Hong Kong (I've heard in the States the company doesn't sponsor retirement funds) with clothing discounts, two free workouts per week, medical insurance, MPF retirement fund, plus daily and monthly bonuses if financial goals are met.

Cons

The brand culture is very prevalent, most of the managers in Asia interpret these core values too literally and often use them to strongarm people into doing things or acting in certain ways. There's heavy emphasis on keeping energy levels neck-high to deliver "great guest experience" but often at the cost of our own educator experience. Floor shifts can be fun with a competitive spirit but usually depends on who the floor lead is that day. As with most retail jobs, the learning curve is not good, I found myself bored after 6 months with limited opportunities to advance into non-store roles. My immediate manager had great ideas, but suffered from grave disorganization and lack of relevant experience in marketing, making my development journey one that was very ambiguous.

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Cons

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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