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Panda Express reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(5,255 total reviews)
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Andrew and Peggy Cherng

81% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Panda Express has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,255 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Panda Express employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restauration industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Oct 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Free meals basically all you can eat because that's what everyone does, you don't even have to ring your meals up because no one cares. Cooks also make their own dishes with panda ingredients

Cons

Unprofessional work environment, overworked. More than 50 hours/week. No work/life balance. I was sent out of state for training and put in an empty apartment with no real bed, no microwave, toilet paper, nothing. No food allowance or consideration for your personal well-being Panda has a really odd weird cult going on where they tell you how to talk, think, act etc. No value for diversity whatsoever. They say they want you to be healthy but they work you to death, where you will have no life but only stress. They don't practice what they preach. They basically instill in you that you are supposed to be be passionate about your job which for them this means don't complain, just say yes to everything, don't even think about disagreeing or else you will seen as having a negative attitude and you will be the outsider. If they ask you something and you kind of ramble a little, they will tell you "Say it again in 1 or 2 sentences"...Yet I find it hilarious that the person telling you this at times I wouldn't understand what she was saying because her English accent is heavy. Also, they have really bad spelling, and don't know how to write sentences with correct English structure etc. (don't judge my writing as this is just a review, not business writing) Really questionable culture at this place, and bad treatment for the GM's, no wonder why there is so much turnover.

1.0
Oct 22, 2014

Horrible

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Only pro I have is that they will offer insurance after 6 months but you do need to average 30 hours a week

Cons

Long hours, transfer you to other stores without notice, boss texts and calls at all hours of the night, expect hourly associates to run a store when the manager quits, can never get a response from boss unless he initiates the conversation, very racist- I hardly ever see an higher ups who are not Asian

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