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Cult like organization - Area Coach of Operations Panda Express Employee Review

3.0
21 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Vision & Mission Statements, Values, Panda’s Way and Safe Environment ideas Good pay & benefits 401K match up to 4% Good PTO (specially for management) Great opportunities for self learning & development as well as business & leadership skills Family business owned by great, caring & kind hearted couple Andrew & Peggy Cherng

Cons

Cultures & practices are heavily centralized to look & sound good in front of Co-Founders & Upper Managements by cover-ups / showing as little reality as possible. Heavily top down approach that suppresses grass-root ideas and creativities. Ability to talk one’s way up “sweet talk” and outside presentation triumph over business core skills and results in selecting promotion “people development”.

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Panda Express Response
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We would like to apologize for missing the mark on your experience working at Panda Express. We are committed to building an environment where our associates are inspired to better their lives, and are focused on continuously improving the overall work experience for all of our associates. Your feedback enables us to take into consideration areas that we need to re-evaluate our people development initiatives. We value your feedback, and will be sharing it with our HR leaders to see how we can work on effectively delivering on our Panda mission and values.

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