Tesco reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(34,188 total reviews)
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66% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Tesco has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 34,188 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 Commerce de détail et de gros industry (3.5 stars).

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34K reviews
1.0
Nov 4, 2019

"Manager"

Recommend
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Pros

Campus is good and shopping store in campus

Cons

If you are a developer and don't mind working 12 - 16 hours a day on technology stack defined by higher leads. The management is busy working on timelines, planning and re-planning of the project and very less time is spent on actual development. The day is filled with multiple meetings and hardly any focus is provided on people management or technical problem in-hand. You will strive here if you are a boss pleaser. Your boss has a final say on every decision. Developers are never given an option to voice their opinion unless you sing the same song as your manager. Saturdays and Sundays become normal working day on a regular basis since you will be preparing data for Monday morning meetings. Personal life goes down hill since the expectation is to be in office till 8pm and drive in the traffic. Adhoc meetings without the right audience is the trend, but everyone needs to know as to what happened in the meeting. You will be questioned the next day about the status! The workplace looks like one big dining table with chairs so close to each other that you can hardly stretch your hands. A lot of importance is given to contractors who have been working on the project since ages. A product company by name but the model which works is not better than a service company The job description says - "70%hands on and 30% people management is must." but in reality you would be attending meeting 90% of your time and working on project plans. Bring in your own food, except for breakfast everything else tastes bad.

2.0
Mar 28, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is ok. Some colleague benefits.

Cons

At the store I work in (Colney Hatch Extra) there are rude, obnoxious managers. Heating doesn’t work, so we freeze and get I’ll easily, they don’t like it when we go sick. Checkout staff especially get cold because the freezers are placed by the checkout rolls, which is just ridiculous. The store has broken blinds by the windows and hasn’t been fixed in a VERY longtime, and as the checkout tills are placed by the windows, whenever it is sunny the belts of the tills stop working due to the sunlights intererence on the belts sensors. Often leads to frustrated customers and cashiers having to stretch to grab products to scan. Another major issue in checkouts is that everything is old, hardly anything works well. Broken tills, belts, broken security tag removers, old screens -all other stores have brand new screens. Might as well be called a broke tesco store. Staff canteen food pathetic, staff who work in afternoon/evening don’t get any hot food, they might as well get rid of the kitchen, only option we have for food is to bring our own or to waste our 30min break to come upstairs, grab some money from our locker(can’t keep cash/card on us if working in checkout), go back downstairs, find something to eat, waste more time queuing up, pay, go back upstairs and rust to stuff our faces because there’s only 5-10mins of our break left, and if your not back downstairs on 30mins checkout team leaders make a call out for you and moan at you for being late and give you a warning.

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