Tesco reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(34,271 total reviews)
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Ken Murphy

66% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Tesco has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 34,271 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
2.0
Aug 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy Money, Good pay, nice location, easy job, flexible hours

Cons

Micro Managing, rude staff, unsociable hours, long hours, mentally draining

2.0
Aug 11, 2025

Terrible workplace

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the co-workers I worked with and store wise discount.

Cons

Team leaders act like they're God's gift and are never pleased by the amount of work you do. In my store at least, all the older workers would gossip endlessly about the younger workers and create an environment where you felt like you couldn't make a single mistake. I was told once "Is that all you've done" after a hard night with no help that was promised and that was the final straw.

2.0
Jul 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Start getting regular customers. - Planned route - Vans kept safe - Offer training to replace or fix certain things on the van - Generally, it's a really easy job, just a lot of minor things begin to annoy you after a while - Part-time makes it fully flexible. - Ok shares scheme. - Pension scheme

Cons

- Customer is always right mentality, you have an incident, they will back the customer every time, managers there don't believe you. They always think there is something you can do to change the outcome. - Poor organisational skills. - Poor management skills - No people skills at this branch from management, they manage the drivers over whatsapp, which is really poor. If you don't agree with this, the manager instantly dislikes you. - Expected to wait to the exact delivery time, if not you'll be in trouble, you can't deliver deliveries infront, you have to stick to the PDA. - Customers get to say and do anything, you must obey what they say. Even if it's an unreasonable and unfair request, such as going round the back of the house when it isn't safe! Tesco have a policy to make yourself safe first, but if the customer got mad, you'd get a complaint and it goes against you on your file, which is absolutely ridiculous. - No food in the canteen anymore - Managers take things very personally - As a neurodivergent, I didn't feel understood and I felt very isolated. No plan was put in place to help with my anxiety, which led to an unfair dismissal following a panic attack at a delivery. I did not care enough to appeal, as I hated the idea of being there any longer, they broke my confidence completely. - Breaks are unpaid - 15 minute pay with 3 minutes grace eachway.

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