ASDA reviews

3.5

52% would recommend to a friend

(12,396 total reviews)

Lord Stuart Rose

45% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

ASDA has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 12,396 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ASDA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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12K reviews
2.0
May 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

On paper it's a great company to work for, You get to work on your own merits and are responsible for your jobs

Cons

In reality the job is nothing more than overly complicated slave labor. They don't train you to any where NEAR the required level to actually do your job, then moan at you because you don't know how to do certain tasks that you should have been trained to do to start with. Other department managers will demand you work a certain part of the shop floor, irrespective of the tasks you've already been given by your supervisor or your own manager. If you get pulled up on why you're not doing your assigned tasks, you get chewed out publicly on the shop floor by firstly your own manager and then the manager that told you to do the job in the first place. Colleagues spend more time chatting each other up and flirting with each other in store than actually working, leading to explosive relationship breakups and fights in a rather public forum. Despite their "Always help the Customer" attitude they teach you, if you get swamped with customer requests you're branded as a slacker for not getting your own tasks done. It's a no-win situation from the moment you put on that godforsaken green uniform till you take it off in anger and insert it into the nearest available manager..

2.0
Apr 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Fellow colleagues are really nice, managers will happily speak to colleagues so no divide between the two, management can be strict but fair, 10% discount,

Cons

Understaffed, often left in my department on my own and given no help, rude customers, low staff morale, asda don't believe in firing people so colleagues can slack off as many times as they like and get away with it, staff training is poor, staff canteen is closing (I like my hot food and think we deserve a proper cooked meal at lunches and breakfasts) not what it was like when I first started at asda, it's gets worse and worse

3.0
Apr 23, 2014

Fun and creative

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

communicative excellent health benefits happy setting leadership positions were up for grab if you were smart and ambitious enough

Cons

kitchen is dirty and toilets are clean which is weird

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