Tesco reviews

From September 2024 it will be required for ALL staff on ALL sites to spend 3 days per week in the office. (now 2 days but not enforced) Loud openoffice, unable to focus even when the office is 20% full. Very slow decision making on the upper levels. The architect (principals and head ofs) don't provide the vision, nor follow or lead the implementation, so teams usually work against each other. There is Apple mac, no windows machines for the devs, no freedom of choice here. All my managers said that they don't like micromanagement AND then they micromanaged me in some sort. Due to a lot of emphasis put on personal achievements, there is no teamwork, but a lots of SILOs, even within the teams. When something is broken there is no teamwork to fix it. Thus a lot of processes work slowly because there is no team commitment to own and improve the processes. There is a possibility to switch to higher positions, however they are all filled in practice and a rare vacancy is filled from external.

There is absolutely zero care for your physical well being. I ended up with a massive blister under my toe in the first two weeks (because of the shoes THEY provided) and informed them that i wouldn’t be able to work that day. Had a fever on another occasion and called in sick. In a span of 3 months, I only took 2 days absence because of my physical condition, and I was denied the permanent contract because of ‘taking too many absences’ and this happened despite hitting 92% performance rating for 3 weeks straight. On my last day i remember my manager telling me ‘in Tesco’s even if u break your leg, you have to come to work, the only exception is if you have cancer or have an organ failure’. That is when I realised that this management is a joke. And the current employees are extremely rude to the new ones. Absolutely zero professionalism.