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Panda Express reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(5,254 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 5,254 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 Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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5K reviews
1.0
May 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay. This is really the only good thing about the job.

Cons

Training is bad. Especially for external managers. They openly show favoritism.

4.0
May 9, 2016

General Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefit package. Good base pay and bonus.

Cons

Long hours of work. Big boss visits often. They requires a lot of detail oriented from store cleaning to good team member. Every visit, they expect you to be in store. I have to cancel my plans just to be in store, and the boss probably would not ever show up. Small visits, big visits, surprised visits, announced visits. Pick you best team members to work on visit days, like running a show. My team get tired of it after time by time.

3.0
Apr 28, 2016

Bitter Sweet

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy to move up regardless of age, free food while working, discounted food for yourself, friends, and family, good customers, can be fast-paced

Cons

All 5 managers I've had in the past 3 years were terrible, there was a lot of racial discrimination in my area (at least 3 stores locally), a LOT of bad HR cases (I was sexually harassed at work one day, but at least the guy was fired for it), the company is very strict and wants you to live your life according to the Panda values, LONG hours, the schedule is posted at the last minute

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