Sodexo Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"An excellent company who is committed to providing quality of life services to its clients worldwide."

"Currently, the company is not developing in a direction that includes growth and I would like to be in a company that is growing and in a position to make a positive impact. I would also like to further develop my skills as a project manager. My current company is looking for information from outside sources with the little food service experience."

"Sodexo is a wonderful place to work if you are a self-directed leader looking to make a significant impact. It is in a period of significant, global restructuring. This provides a great opportunity for fresh eyes to make an impact. There are lots of different paths to success at Sodexo, as well as opportunities all over the world."

"Very good place to work. Can work flexible timing and also can have very good co-workers."

"The leaders over you are disrespectful and talk to you as if you are children and not adults. Management has no clue of what is going on in the kitchen because they have NO experience (no exaggeration) like never even worked in the industry experience. If you don't have a degree in the field consider yourself safe and free to do whatever you please whether it be right or wrong. If they are aware that you have a degree and lots of experience beware. You are the black sheep and management is coming for you with everything they have to set you up to fail. Nothing is off the table: trying to destroy your reputation, gossip to turn your co-workers against you, challenge and single you out in employee meetings, try to make you feel less than, gossip to other mangers at different units about you and all around try to make your life, job and career miserable. They will do whatever they can to take you out to make themselves feel more valuable because anybody forbid from them learning anything from anyone who they feel are beneath them. They literally/physically stand over your shoulder trying to find things that you could possibly be doing wrong and try to get a rise out of you. If you have a degree in Food Service run for your life. For your own sanity, anxiety, stress, frustration and emotional stability stay away from this company. It is not worth it and is a complete waist of all of your hard work you put into school to deal with abuse from management while just trying to do something that you love."

"I have been with this disrespectful company for over 2 yrs at Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. The general manager is a bully! He lies and treats his employees like crap. The HR is no better. I need my job to feed my kids so I have to take it. I have to get meds for stress and anxiety from dealing with the stress on the job from him and the other managers. And the sad part is he gives the union reps days off so they won't fight for the workers. If you don't work for these people, don't!!"

"First off, Sodexo hires all management and or laymen positions as a contracted position based on a contract setup with various clients in the government, food, commercial and healthcare industry. What they don't tell you is how screwed up the contracts are with the client and now you have to meet ridiculous demands from the client. Most of all the client always asks for more outside the contract and Sodexo expects you to go outside the contract to make the client happy so the client takes advantage of this situation and it makes it harder for you to accomplish your goals. Your manager will give you work to complete from Sodexo Corporate or from the District Manager but will not give you any understanding on how to complete these crazy tasks with no real instructions. Also you get no support from Sodexo Corporate or HR in Gaithersburg, MD or from any of the District Managers. The District Managers keep giving you more work from Sodexo Corporate to keep you bogged down on paperwork which is ridiculous demands, so the District Managers can meet their targeted KPI's but in all reality it is set up so the District Managers can get bonuses if they meet these targets. Keep in mind you have to also provide paperwork to the client so to please both sides is impossible demands. In short, Sodexo is a paper company and mostly all of their accounts are P&L accounts so they don't really care about their employees as long as they are making a profit you are expandable. The only real training you will get is Diversity in which is good but the rest of the training they provide is about how there are different programs to help deal with clients or review contracts but unfortunately your District Manager or Sodexo Corporate never applies them so in other words it's just hog wash to make you feel they are a well rounded company. The have the worst benefits and you are expected as managers to work 10-12 hour days, which sucks especially if you have a family or want free time with friends."

"My typical day at work was covering for all the people who called in sick for whom the upper management kept giving extra chances. Then I would get my own work done. When I would ask for help, I received rubber stamp 'figure it out yourself' answers, or outright snarkiness. Not once did I receive real time meaningful help from my superiors. What I learned from all of this was that I had to be excellent all on my own. I was for 7 years. Last year right before T-Day break when the FSLA rule appeared to be going through, I was promised a raise. The FSLA rule was blocked right before break, but three days after my raise was supposed to have taken effect, it was taken away, and then the company tried to blame the court system in a mass email--as if promised raises 'had' to be taken away when the case was only that they 'could' be. This is not the only mistrustful action on Sodexo's part, but it's a good example of this company's MO--a culture of secrecy and spooks. The hardest part of my job was being stuck between union workers who spent exactly the number of chances they had before they got in real trouble and a company that when I asked for bread for being instrumental in winning a 10 year contract gave me a stone. The most enjoyable part of my job was being the boss of over 100 people. It was really swell getting to know all my new employees and deepening relationships with the long timers who showed up for work. In summary, never work management for Sodexo. At a corporate training, I was in a class with a majority in worse situations than I. When I finally left Sodexo, my final paycheck was screwed up 4 times and I was still shorted."

"21 yrs and still being paid like I'm a new employee. No caring for the employees any more."

"Sodexo prides itself on promoting and advancing its employees from within, I got no such opportunity. The individual I was supposed to be training with whom I also thought would be the best to learn from apparently didn't want to bother with communicating any issues they may have had (in a proper manner) or that this individual could not work with me because they were to busy, etc. Communication in this company is very poor. Students looking for some extra income while in school can do just that, working for the College Dining Services, anyone else I wouldn't expect much at all for a career opportunity. Apparently management (or at least in year of 2015) doesn't know how to hire experienced Professional Chefs. The one I was supposed to train with was a 2 year old acting as a manager with no management or leadership skill, much less communication skill. So childish in fact, that for entertainment this Cater Supervisor would replay messages of unsatisfied angry customers for a laugh. I wouldn't suggest setting up a catering with the current Supervisor."