Tesco reviews

- People are much more likely to be promoted for who they know rather than what they know - Systems are atrocious - Tesco is famed on building it's past success on the Clubcard and customer insight this provided. Finance teams have no access to this data at all, which seems like a massive missed opportunity. The data you do have access to is limited and extremely hard to access/manipulate - A large volume of work has been offshored to the Bangalore based service centre - this has added huge inefficiency to everyone's day jobs as communication between the offices is awful and you will likely spend more time receiving frustrating emails and in frustrating meetings with colleagues in Bangalore than you will sharing your ideas and insight with management - Extremely hierarchical culture - some managers are great, many will take your work, pass it off as their own and present it to directors. Many (not all) will be unlikely to offer you the opportunity to present to directors yourself - Benefits have been pared back massively over the past few years. Pay is uncompetitive. Forget about pay rises after you join.

Lack of opportunity to progress, particularly in the current Tesco climate. Frustrating seeing managers from Extras etc coming across and taking store manager roles for which they have had little or no training whilst those existing Express deputies had to sit tight and be stilled in their progression, Having to then carry out part of the SM role due to lack of capability without getting any credit or recognition. Work/life balance is poor to non existent; expectation it to work extra for free and having had little or no breaks. Contract states 36.5 hours but it is easy to work around 60!