Tesco reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(34,185 total reviews)
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Ken Murphy

66% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Tesco has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 34,185 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tesco 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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3.0
Apr 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- £9.30/hr is pretty good, all things considered - 10% colleague discount throughout the year, goes up to 15% every payday weekend - Generous breaks - Take colleague health concerns seriously

Cons

- Pay is not worth the hassle you get from both customers and management, and occasionally your own colleagues - Yearly limit of £1,000 colleague discount - Breaks begin the moment you leave your department. If a customer needs your help for the full length of your break, then tough, and if you're even a minute late, team support reports you to management - Full of jobsworths. Some managers lack any empathy or people skills, while colleagues and team leaders will screw you over if it means getting a foot up the ladder. - Sickness policy does not take any overtime you do into account, meaning that one sick day can have a huge impact on your attendance record if you're only contracted to one or two days a week - Expect you to be fully flexible for them but are very rarely flexible for you outside of their legal obligations - You don't get to decide your own availability - Nepotism is rampant. Cliques everywhere. To get anywhere at all, you need to be best pals with management first - Some managers will undermine you when dealing with difficult customers - Broken checkouts/systems take months to get repaired or replaced - Absolutely zero trust placed in staff

3.0
Feb 12, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

10% discount , staff are friendly to work with.

Cons

The way they have everyone "multi-skilled" is basically an excuse to hire less staff and drain the ones they do have. Regardless of what needs done/ you are struggling in your own dept...if another one is struggling you have to go help them first. It's a joke to be honest. They should just hire more staff in the depts that are struggling instead of robbing Peter to pay Paul all the time.

1.0
Dec 10, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

None, I would suggest you stay on universal credit until finding better work conditions.

Cons

Everything and I will go into detail. -First of all, forget about what they teach you about lifting safely. The targets that they set up for you are literally unachievable so you will have to be in a constant rush in order to reach them. If you don't reach them you get pestered by supervisors, if you do reach them you risk injury because of the rushed and unsafe nature of the job. So you can see how they can easily blame you for a possible injury or low performance. Take into consideration that I am training in a gym for about five years now so the weight at Tesco does not bother me. You need to take into account that no matter how physically strong you are, in order to avoid injury you need the proper form. Even if you only work there for one day you will see people running around, all of them lifting in unsafe conditions. - It is laughable that they say managers will question you if you don't respect proper health and safety. At the Livingston branch managers do not care at all even when you do something that defies their policy in front of them. They will only talk to you if you do not reach your target. - You are literally a robot. There is no human interaction as they always check to see if you are picking or not(and do not think for a moment that I am one of the people who would stay and chat with a colleague for 10 minutes), even if you have a small chat for a minute you will get a message on your scanner that you are taking too long in between picks. If you go to the toilet when you come back prepare to be questioned by your supervisor as to why you were not picking for five minutes. - As fit as you might be, the work will tare you down. It is doable with better targets that emphasize the fact that you are actually a human being and do not have replaceable parts such as a robot. -The colleagues at the branch are absolutely miserable from the poor culture and work conditions. All of the advice you to leave as soon as you can.

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