It's Retail - But Better Retail - Anonymous employee lululemon Employee Review

3.0
4 Dec 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The culture of the company is focused heavily on development: so whether you're looking to move up the career pipeline or just be a better version of yourself, the core of the company supports that. Managers act as coaches: helping you focus on improving your work performance or just achieving your personal or health goals, too. The best part of the job is the sense of community with your coworkers and free yoga/workout classes every week at almost any studio or gym.

Cons

It's a retail environment and your hours and commission are dictated by how well your store achieves their financial goals. If you are not working at a very busy store, your take home will suffer in the slow months and your hours will likely be cutback. Although the company and managers are eager to develop people to move up the pipeline, you must be patient as there may not always be a position open without forcing you to travel or relocate. I witnessed many people "stuck" as a part-time or full time worker waiting for a manager position to open up...months and years. Sometimes you are led on to believe you are being considered and developed for a manager position, only to learn that you "just aren't ready yet" without any tangible reasons. Just like any other job, if you get along with management, you're more likely to be recommended for opportunities. Managers continuously voice the importance of work/life balance, however there will be many store events, workouts, goal sessions, etc. that will happen outside of your shifts that you aren't paid for. Of course, you are always able to not attend but if you are looking for a promotion, it's expected that you are at every event.

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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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