It's sad really. - Executive Sysco Employee Review

2.0
1 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great co-workers. Decent pay and benefits. Product offering is good. Marketing material is good. Technology is good.

Cons

Detached and ineffective senior leadership. Constant boasting of diversity, but in practice it's still a straight white boys club. Field leadership is weak, because the "A" team has moved on to competitors, leaving the "B and C" team in positions they aren't qualified for. Morale is horrible, in all departments. Turnover and job elimination is heavy, often without replacements, so it increases everyone's workload. Instead of working harder, most of the work just doesn't get done in a timely fashion because the once loyal employees truly just don't care anymore. Customers are quitting in droves, leaving with a negative impression of Sysco that will take years to correct. Silos have created competing priorities amongst the various departments. Operations and merchandising are completely removed from any level of accountability to customers, internal or external.

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5.0
10 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

company culture is the best. years later, I still miss working here purely because of the people. I would come back if the right opportunity opened up

Cons

-pay and benefits (particularly vacation time) is low -the organization is surprisingly flat considering how large the company is. it made it hard to move up especially when they would close senior level positions during layoffs

2.0
15 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can make money but it all depends on the orders you get, how fast you can go, how long you can maintain that pace without getting burned out. Definitely a young mans sport, as the do refer to you as "industrial athletes."

Cons

Like many industries the hours can be long. For the ones who don't make much on running above rate then you can make up for it in hours. If you soak the hours and run you can definitely make some big money. The turn over rate is extremely high there, even in management. I used to be proud of the union but the teamsters in Cleveland are completely worthless, I would bet they are getting paid under the table to not fight for contract negotiations. When I was there the contract expired and they barely fought for anything, on voting day they literally said they wont back us up if we don't pass this contract....so consider that when you want to work for this place. Also the equipment is so old and broken that people were taking the scanners home just so they could have a good one for the next night.

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