Great learning experience for entry level sales, lack of advancement opportunities. - Marketing Associate Sysco Employee Review

2.0
Aug 29, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A very diverse group of people with daily connections to a very large portion of food service. Employees are very welcoming and everyone helps each other as needed. Over all it is an ok place to work but only if you are remote.

Cons

Management only concerned about themselves and their numbers. Push staff to hard to make goals and are always changing the focus and direction which just confuses everyone. Makes doing job hard and very time consuming. Job has turned into 6 (sometimes 7) days a week. Not very good quality of life on the sales end. Always working on something and doing reports and logging.

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2.0
May 15, 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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