SYSCO Reviews

Pros

Good company to work for, good benefits and compensation.

Cons

Poor direct management with lack of motivation and incentives. A lack of giving direction to emplyees as well.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer new MA's (0-2 yrs) small teritorries that they can build on. Expecting sales people to prospect 40 hours a week is unrealistic and very unmotivating.

Pros

Good name recognition; try to be efficient all the time

Cons

it is way too big. local Sysco pretty much free to do whatever they want. too much waste at local level.

Advice to Senior Management

I can think of a million things. but above all: treat your people with respect. Just because they earn $8/ hour does not mean you can treat them like dirt.

Pros

Benefits are OK, flexible work schedule, possible to make good money sometimes, thats really all but i had to get to twenty words.

Cons

Work Sundays, phone always ringing, COLLECTING, Corporate has lost their minds, Sysco is run by accountants not sales people, no expenses covered, vacation coverage awful, most expensive products in town, profits are not shared with employees, stock holders are most important, did i mention you had to collect, 100% commission, hard to make any money, every new change is BAD for sales, morale is absolutely horrible, everyone is leaving.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house at the corporate level, put some sales people back in charge and put the accountants back in their own department, get competitive on prices or customers are going to leave in droves.

Pros

Sysco has a lot of great people who all work very hard to make the company as successful as it is. You are always learning new things and have the opportunity to grow and expand your knowledge. Sysco has many benefits for their employees.

Cons

Workloads sometimes are very heavy and I feel that staff is not always compensated financially for the responsibilities that they have.

Advice to Senior Management

I believe the management needs to look into those employees on salary and become more competitive in the work field. Perhaps we would not have as much staff turn around if employees were compensated fairly for the work they do.

Pros

Flexible Schedule, Quality Products, Decent Benefits, Stable Company, Good Coworkers, Exciting Industry

Cons

It's sales. Upper management only focused on numbers. Not very aggressive on pricing for street business. Poor compensation for commissions.

Pros

- Good people around
-lot of learning opportunities
-stable company
-Flex time schedule
-bonus package
- lot of ppl with over 10 years, 15 years with SYSCO

Cons

- Long working hours. Project takes priority over everything.
-Terrible benefits: less 401k, less health benefits premium match
- Terrible time -off policies, you are supposed to work over the weekends but you won't get any time offs, if you get any flex time off, management has put around lot of policies around to discourage employees from using those.
- Terrible vacation policies.
-Similar to the time off, lot of policies around fiscal year's bonus. Company makes a profit of $400 million each quarter, but very reluctant to share profits
- 2% annual raises for most of the ppl. if you work extremely hard AND also recognized then 3% may be.

Advice to Senior Management

Be employee friendly.
Recognize efforts
Share your profit proportionately

Pros

Leader in its space
Moving ahead of the times-Planning for the next generation
Great People
Great Opportunities
Respects work Life Balance in IT

Cons

Lots of change for the company to handle so findingnew ways to execute

Pros

Training is excellent. No complaints on benefits, better than most. Fortune 500 company. I work with great people. There is a "possibility" of a decent income.

Cons

New people with no experience can stumble into a great territory with no effort. Experienced and dedicated people who have accounts that close and have their numbers drop are generally screwed. They say it is all about relationships and service..it is only about opening new accounts.
.PERIOD...Doesnt matter if you can keep them/ just get them open.
Accounts under pressure from competitors can see huge margin reductions. Sysco keeps the account, YOU lose commision. 80k one year/ 30K the next year. If you drink and golf with the boss you probably will have better accounts fall your way. We have 15 year sales people at 700.00 week! A couple of 70k plus because they were either chosen or lucky. TWO who have earned most of their accounts, but they are well connected in the "hot" part of town. You need 10% margin to try to make any money. I have seen 2% margins that customers refuse because competition price is lower. Huge "buying power" does not translate to better than average customer pricing. Turnover gets worse every year. People who make it to retirement anymore are rare.
  If you are a sales professional there are a lot better base salaries to be had out there.

Advice to Senior Management

It does not matter. They take all input and turn it around in an entirely different direction anyway.

Pros

There are many reasons to like Sysco Las Vegas such as great benefits package, nice working environment ie the building itself, most people are very pleasant to work with except a few who ruin the experience for the rest of us.

Cons

favoritism of management towards certain employees

Advice to Senior Management

Please be fair to all. Favoritism hurts when we see you do not treat all employees equally and certain people do not get disciplined. The numbers, i.e. the bottom line ,do not mean more than treating employees in a professional manner as genuine hard working people and not merely a means to ensure your gain.

Pros

While the list of cons could go on and on, there are exactly three pros to working for Sysco: Benefits, stock options and a fully funded pension.

Cons

Unethical and uneducated / inexperienced management, poor compensation for expenses, micromanagement, no advancement opportunities, low percentage of sales dollars translate to pay, high company profit margins, poor training.

Advice to Senior Management

Please stop treating those that break the rules as though they are the gods of this industry. It sends a highly negative message. Also, quit sucking up all the money for yourselves while those that work the hardest are compensated in the least fair manner. Stop encouraging unethical behavior among salespeople, and stop rewarding underhanded, unethical behavior.