Pretty good company in overall, but with ineffective upper management. - Anonymous employee Sysco Employee Review

2.0
17 Nov 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The employees are friendly and have varied backgrounds. Good initial compensation and benefit package.

Cons

The leadership in the upper management is severely lacking. Ineffective and unskilled management. Upper management doesn’t value outside education like they should. They can be a bit naive about current knowledge in the industry that they are involved in. Middle management is not encouraged to professionally develop the talent of their workforce by upper management. The morale of the company is poor. Poor recognition of employee’s skills. Favoritism is another obvious issue. Lower than going market rate for wages/salaries.

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