High turnover with no longevity. - General Manager LensCrafters Employee Review

1.0
7 Feb 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salary and benefits for managers only. The products that they carry are great and your employee discount really helps lower the steep costs. You get one free prescription pair of glasses each year.

Cons

This company constantly rotates their upper management from the VP down. These people then in turn let good quality people go and replace them with their own people. Regional Managers know nothing about the business and instead replaces everyone with their own people who know nothing about the business as well. Within one years time my region let go of sixteen out of twenty General Managers in only ten months. The few that remain are already being pushed out. Human Resources will not help. If you are looking for longevity in the areas of sales, lab, optician, or management, LensCrafters is definitely not it.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
19 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

when I first started it was a very employee based company. Great discounts, great benefits. Regional managers were swift to help if we had questions and offer support

Cons

Since last year the environment has changed vastly. They no longer care about the employees and only want results. They have raised prices and insurances dont cover as well as they used to and they expect the managers to just force people to buy. If you dont make your monthly goals youre put on a PIP and the Regionals are constantly threatening you to make them. The work life balance does not exist. There is a group chat with your fellow store managers hosted by the Regional and if its your day off they still expect a response. I know it comes from the top down but the micromanaging has gotten so awful. Down to the minute you must be scheduled correctly. I have been here for 3 years and have never had a positive review even though our store has exceeded its goals. Doesnt matter to them, they expect more and more. They raise goals constantly and the only answer they have for making sure we hit those goals is no one leaves, even though they can get the same product from a competitor at a much lower cost.

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