Sage Hospitality Reviews

Pros

Sage Hospitality cares about its associates, its community and its guests equally!

Pros

Good people, opportunity for personal and professional development, investment in employees, great hotels!

Advice to Management

The leadership at Sage corporate is filled with some of the kindest, most talented people in the industry. Sage is a great place to start your career because they care about investing in their people’s personal and professional development. If you make a mistake, they treat it as a learning opportunity instead of making you feel like you screwed up. There is an amazing culture that rallies around the community and giving back. Walter Isenberg (CEO) truly makes it a place you are proud to work. Every company has values they say they live by but few rarely live by them. Walter creates a culture where they practice what they preach and always act with integrity and do the right thing.

Sage would attract a lot more talent if they were able to pay their sales teams better. Their bonus structure is incredibly low for property sellers which is probably because of how low the salaries are. I was only at Sage for 4 short years but just by leaving, my salary increased by 25K or about 28% if that tells you anything. Also, the recruiting team is not good at following through or follow up. They will pursue you then stand you up for an interview. They’ve developed a pretty poor reputation from people they’ve tried to recruit because there is zero follow up or respect for the candidates time.

Pros

Great corporate support.
Strong leadership.
Innovative ideas.
Support, support, support

Advice to Management

As a previous GM - from a property that was sold and no longer managed by Sage, I can't speak highly enough of my experience with the organization. The day after my hotel transferred ownership, the CEO of Sage, Walter Isenberg, left me a voice mail thanking me for my leadership during the sale - and I am sure he did the same for all 14 GM's who's properties transferred that day. From a man with so much on his plate, to take a moment to call a GM from Cleveland, Ohio, was priceless. FYI...I will be saving that message for a long time!

Pros

Franchisee for Colo Marriott int.

Advice to Management

Develop a true management development, just because someone went to Business school, Culinary School etc. definitely don't qualify them as a true people person.
"True Leaders don't create followers. They create more Leaders"

Pros

Most people that work at Sage are super cool. You can count on most of them to be friendly, help you out and care. So many are unique and come from everyone but have giving hearts with a hunger to do more and be better.

Advice to Management

Some managers need to update their approach to people and how to get work done. The 80's and 90's are over. Walter....what kind of leaders do you want steering the ship?

Pros

Beautiful location , laundry service for employees

Advice to Management

Allow Afrikan Americans to progress beyond supervisors and add some Diversity to your executive team that is 100% white . Opportunities shouldnt depend on skin color .

Pros

The culture at Sage fits with me. I've worked for some other hospitality management companies and this is the first one where I feel like they truly care about their employees success, happiness, and salary/benefits. I feel like they care for their employees at the same level (or even more) than just "profit, profit, profit."

Advice to Management

Listen to employees if there is a major issues. Take it seriously and fix it.

Pros

Benes. Benes. Benes. great benefits for cheap. Pay is great for college students.

Advice to Management

Everyone knows what kind of business it was and that a restaurant can have wacky times and scheduling but your lack of effort to find more runners and understanding of the time put in by your employees was unbelievable. Everyone single one of you passed the buck along to some mysterious person that made the schedules so it was never anyone's fault.

Pros

Culture, CEO, hotel discounts, flexibility, managers who care, perks, very open about promotion and advancement, no secrets for interviews and post new jobs weekly

Advice to Management

Continue to build the Sage Values and events, they make a big difference!

Pros

Opportunities for internal growth. Lots of free food from events

Advice to Management

Pay $16+ an hour. Offer 4%+ 401k match with instant vesting. The most Ill make from an excellent annual review is $0.39 more. Thats an absolute joke. For a company that prides itself on being a community leader and being progressive, it pays very badly and acts like every other low-ball company.