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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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5K reviews
3.0
Sep 2, 2016

Area Coach of Operations

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Travel, Pay, Benefits, Co-Workers, People Interaction

Cons

Work-life Balance, Upper management undermines employees, expectation to pay for classes/courses required out of your own pocket

2.0
Aug 13, 2016

Please help our store

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You learn problem solving skills that are necessary in every job. My co-workers being so wonderful are the only reason I haven't quit yet, but that's obviously just my experience. Free meal at every break is really helpful for people on a budget.

Cons

Honestly, I loved my job here for the first few months. The pay is good, the hours are generous and my manager was helpful and flexible with scheduling. However, we recently got a new manager. She is horrible. Not only is she BRAND NEW to panda express (yes, she's my general manager and she has NEVER worked at a panda before) she is also brand new to the United states!!! This makes communication much harder than it should be, and her management style is so unprofessional and terrible. My assistant manager just turned 20, and he's only been with the company for half a year. Does that sound like people you would trust to run a store?

1.0
Aug 3, 2016

Kitchen Team Member

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers can be nice, and it's very nice to go on break during a long shift

Cons

My manager yelled at me for being slow after just one day of working there, everyone spoke a different language in the kitchen, most of my coworkers had heavy accents so it was hard to understand instructions. I became so emotionally and physically drained from working there that I began to look for another job after just a couple weeks of employment at Panda. I even told my manager that I couldn't work Sundays for religious reasons, and he still scheduled me on Sundays, which is probably illegal

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