Tesco reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(34,247 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 34,247 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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34K reviews
1.0
Mar 16, 2011
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Pros

Marmite - you either love it or hate it at Tesco Pay is good in head office Opportunities to progress are good - if you are good at your job Treat employees to team days out. Good train links to london central (30mins) lots of International opportunities - I spent a few months in India, Bangalore You will be moved around quickly if you are good. People are nice Calibre of people is very high Great opportunity to learn new skills and new ways of doing things

Cons

Very hard work (Can be quite technical at times, very high volume, requires a very fast pace in turnaround) People are challenging in terms of push back Long hours required People are aggressively managed by peers at all levels WL2-WL4 Not for someone looking for an easy job Little support from peers and very high expectations Many people leave after a few months however some people thrive in the environment Systems dont work too great Challenges around working with the Bangalore team where the capability of staff is lower, environment has less urgency and culture tolerates errors. Location of HQ is poor, it is on an old industrial estate where there is a high crime rate in local area and nowhere to eat outside and canteen food is not good. Difficult to get to work level 3 if you are a WL2 and difficult to get to WL4 if you are WL3 - political

1.0
Sep 13, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

just pays the bills, nothing else

Cons

patronising, rudeness, arrogance of gaffers you can keep complaining about something it will not have any effect whatsoever gaffer will never do anything for you unless have some (perhaps personal) interest in it they know everything better and never listen or help you when something goes wrong it is always your fault, no exceptions when it turns out to be their fault you never get an apology to progress in the company you will need a backup of certain people, who are dull but managed to get to the post, it is not exactly strait forward and fair job targets are unrealistic no team spirit, it is better not to make friends here

1.0
Jun 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

thinking....still thinking...it's convenient and easy if you're desperate for a job. Also generally speaking the staff are great despite the poor pay and poor working conditions.

Cons

Poorly paid, poorly rewarded for hard work and poorly rewarded when the company performs well due to the hard work of it's lowly employees! From my experience within other industries and businesses if a company performs extremely well due to the great efforts of it's staff then those same staff can often look forward to a bonus of some sort. At Tesco there is no reward for great results. Unless you are a senior executive that is. Of course those billion dollar profits are all due to that merry bunch of executives at head office. It also has a very poor culture towards the health and safety of it's staff. In the warehouse fire doors can often be found blocked, Roll cages stacked with heavy stock will arrive for delivery with only 3 wheels where 4 should be and chiller floors covered with water making for highly dangerous working areas. I could go on. I think this is in danger of turning into a rant and so here I will stop

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