What is the hiring process like at US Foods?

This used to be a great place to work. I had over a decade of success here in several divisions and various positions however over the past 3 years the leadership and culture has changed for the worst!

Long hours, average pay, cut throat environment, the worst communication and leadership planning you could imagine. Outsourced most general help lines overseas to terrible companies. Turnover has continued to increase year after year. Trust me there are better places to work. They have awful hiring practices that make it easy to get in the door, but most associates quickly look for new jobs once they see they are set up to fail.

10 months of shadowing before you get your own route. You are salaried until you can aquire more accounts that exceed your salary before being moved to commission which is great considering some companies will just make throw you into commission without a enough accounts to make a living. Great work/Life balance especially if you have kids. Affordable benefits for yourself or if you have a family. Mileage reimbursement. Cellphone allowance. Company laptop.

None so far, I'm a new hire.

They allow remote or hybrid for some positions

Good lord, where to start?… This company seems to be deathly allergic to efficiency on every possible level. SAAS salespeople out there must phone in their sales goals and just adore the CTO as it seems USF is religiously dedicated to purchasing as many database/software programs as possible, and the less they integrate with one another the better! I’ve never seen such a large company rely so heavily on some random spreadsheet that Susan in Milwaukee made up and passed around; the amount of critical data just sitting in sketchy sheets on random employee desktops around the county should be cause for an investor-wide panic attack. Employees are forced to find work arounds like this because the absolute crack circus that is the tech suite used by USF seems almost punitively unnavigable. I imagine USF has a team of sadists sitting in a dark basement somewhere munching on stale saltines and sipping flat dollar store cola who are dedicated to making every task as complicated and un-intuitive as possible. Their little “stop waste” motto would be fantastic if it weren’t so hilariously off target. It’s honestly a miracle (and testament to the employees’ dedication) that any customer ever actually gets their deliveries. In addition to the entire ordering/delivery process being unnecessarily complicated for customers and employees alike- US Foods seems equally dedicated to making any employee benefits/HR questions/etc as complex a maze to navigate as demonically possible. About 3 years in and I have seen as many CEOs come and go- along with countless middle management and co-workers. If being trapped in an endless game of “telephone” always getting 4th hand incorrectly translated information sounds fun… or if you’re a chronic people pleaser with a boarder-line unhealthy work-ethic and you need to have that ground out of you and replaced with ALL the apathy… or you just really enjoy getting a cost of living increase on your pay that’s less than the cost of living actually went up, effectively leaving you with a pay cut while the CEO de jour boasts of record profit on a townhall zoom call… then… this is the place for you!

People are fantastic. Onboarding was seamless.

Paid time off for new hires was only a week for the first year. This is negotiable, though.

Opportunities to develop and progress

Turnover and recruiter led hiring

Co-Workers who also hate their jobs are easy to get along with as having in common disgust for the company. Numerous Diversity hires but to mostly incompetent individuals that check the box.

You will be expected to work 10-13 hour days including weekends. Leadership is a disaster. Turn over is higher than you could ever imagine. Turn em and burn em. The company will nickel and dime you with no technology reimbursement, little to no driving expense. Overloaded with work 100 % " No Work Life Balance"