ALDI reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(14,636 total reviews)
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51% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

ALDI has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 14,636 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ALDI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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15K reviews
4.0
Oct 3, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I was just hired and am going through training. It's a lot of work, so the work day flies by. The company places value in fairness , and seems to really care for its employees.

Cons

Upon hiring, you are required to attend a welcome day. It was awesome to be set up with a free hotel room, but the two hour travel is a slight inconvenience. As well as traveling to a different city 45 minutes away to train.

2.0
Jul 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, good progression for those willing to work 60+ hours a week with no complaints, can travel across country

Cons

Was told it would be no more than 48hours when joined, any work you work over that would be paid back in time back. Worked a minimum of 55 hours every week and never seen any time back or extra pay. when I Left owed over 100 hours and didn't see any extra. Be prepared to work endless hours for the pay you earn. very much a culture of don't leave until everythings finshed. Countless shifts from 11am to 2,3am to be back in at 6 next morning

3.0
Jul 22, 2016

Aldi

Recommend
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Pros

I've been working with aldi for 2 1/2 years. I work as an associate/cashier. The job has good benefits for those that work full time it comes with medical,vision, and dental and you also have the option to enroll in a 401k plan (also for full time) the starting salary is also really good. The starting salary for my store is $12 an hour for cashiers/ associates , $16 an hour for shift managers and $25 an hour for store managers. The job also gives payee vacations along with personal and sick days. When store associates are not stocking they are ringing at the register and we get to sit down for the amount of time we ring and we don't bag the customers items.

Cons

Aldi doesn't seem to like to hire alot of people. Often we are short staffed. We get timed on the register , they expect the cashiers to get the lines down as fast as they can which makes a lot of customers angry because they say that the cashiers throw their stuff in the cart and a lot of people expect the cashiers to bag their stuff for them. Cashiers do everything in the store from stocking to cleaning to ringing to unloading pallets in the morning. The schedules vary from week to week and usually full time workers don't get the full 40 hours except in the summer full time workers get up to 47 hours per week. Also the associates that come unload the truck are expected to ring and don't have much time to unload the truck and usually are expected to stay past the time they are scheduled to. Cashiers are expected to count their own money drawer and make a deposit before they leave which takes like an extra 20 minutes after the time they are scheduled to. Also they really don't care about how they schedule you the store closes at 9 but employees don't leave until everything is done which can be up to 12am and sometimes the people that close are expected to unload a truck the next day at 6am less than 6 hours of sleep.

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