Sysco reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(4,672 total reviews)
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Kevin Hourican

58% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Sysco has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,672 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sysco employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Commerce de détail et de gros industry (3.4 stars).

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5K reviews
2.0
Jun 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Money, Plenty of hours, Great Medical Benefits(because you're subject to being injured on the job).

Cons

Worked for the Saint Charles MO location for six months. This has been by far the WORST company I have worked for since becoming a CDL driver. Where do I start? Very unorganized with scheduling, from week to week you don't know what your off day will be. You work very long hours, and once you get home you have no energy to do anything, but eat and go to sleep. Management text you the NIGHT BEFORE to tell you "stay home tomorrow." Sometimes the text that you are off the following day can come anywhere between 8-9 pm, and to them this is normal. They DO NOT care about you as an employee, they only care our their products being delivered to their retailers. If you call and alert management that you're about to die, they're going to ask you can you delivery their products first and then you can die. This job is very, very strenuous on your body, Throughout the six month I was employed with Sysco I have acquired to many aches and pains. Most of the Drivers that have been with the company for years are limping and beat down. Many guys have gone out on lead due to injury. I've watched them ask drivers to clean out old products at restaurants, which we are not supposed to do) just to appease the restaurants managers. Long story short, if you want to feel like you're just a pawn this is the place for you. I don't recommend anyone working for a company such as Sysco.

4.0
Mar 14, 2016

sysco pay

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Sysco order selector position is a performance based pay system it allows you to control your pay. Base pay is $17.35 and starting at 103% pay increases past $20 up to $35.

Cons

The hours are overnight hours so you must be prepared to be very tired when it comes to taking kids to school in the morning.

1.0
Aug 17, 2015

Order Selector

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing. As of right now, i dont know anyone that actually enjoys coming into work every single day. Pretty much everyone wants to leave but a lot of people are just too old or scared to try and find something new.

Cons

This location has gone down so bad here in the past 2 years. They decreased the pay tremendously. They continue to find ways to make the goals harder and pay less. You work long hours and have tiring goals (comparable to amazon) The management is getting worse and worse. They cant keep anything under control. They do not know how to schedule people. The management is very inappropriate towards some of the staff. Now that a specific manager is in control you see they are leaning more towards a certain race when they hire. They have new rules every single day. New reasons to write people up. They say your family is important and they want them to always come first. Not true. You're just constantly lied to on a daily basis. They have no respect for the employees that run this company. All they care about is how to make more money and pay you less. They cant keep a good staff. We have an extremely bad turnover rate. Not even worth remembering people . You can try to apply for every change to advance in the company, but if the manager has a grudge against you regardless if you would be great at the job, he will not let you move up. There is not really any opportunity. They always hire from outside when there are 70-80 different people inside on nights they could hire within. The slot coordination is absolutely terrible and they don't seem to care. They tell you to give them your ideas to make it better, do not even bother wasting your time. If you do give them your ideas it just goes in the trash because they aren't willing to make changes because they want it their way even though you are the selector and could have it much better with just one little change. 2 separate times it was so bad that corporate had to come out and survey the warehouse. They had everything so perfect to make it look so good and they only really change things when corp is out or there is a threat of a union. But there will probably never be a union because they bribe you so much once the union tries to get in that you forget how bad it is. Once all that is over they go back to their ways. Basically every error falls on the selector. Nobody else. If you're looking to go somewhere here, you might as well just start out as a driver, or in the office. The pay is greater than other warehouse, but its definitely falling and will be on all the other warehouse level pays one day. The survey company that has come out completely messed up the cold side for how fast you need to move to maintain a 100% but the dry side is cake walk. But unfortunately if you come to sysco as a selector you will be put in the freezer. That is where all the new guys have to go. It used to be a privilege to work on the cold side and make more. Now you work harder for less. Good luck to anyone who comes to sysco in the future. Things will not be under control for a very long time. P.s In the summer the hours are short and the temps get any overtime that there is. They refuse to let you come in on your days off or stay after and get the hours if you want them. It cost too much to let the legal citizens get the hours so they let the illegal temps that hardly make any money get all the hours.

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