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 ask 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 bog down on paperwork which is ridiculous demands, so the District Managers can meet their targeted KPI's but in all reality it is setup 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 your 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 their are different programs to help deal with clients or review contracts but unfortunately they your District Manager or Sodexo Corporate never applies them so in other words its 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 in which sucks especially if you have a family or want free time with friends but they don't care. They will not let you take days off and if you have plan days off they will tell you that an emergency came up and now you have to cancel your trip. Sodexo Managers are quick to write you up so they can pass the blame and that is how Sodexo operates on the blame game instead of fixing their internal problems. Their is no support within the organization and all other reviews are not telling the truth about Sodexo. Stay away from this company or you will regret it later after they fire you.
Sodexo Reviews
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 ask 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 bog down on paperwork which is ridiculous demands, so the District Managers can meet their targeted KPI's but in all reality it is setup 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 your 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 their are different programs to help deal with clients or review contracts but unfortunately they your District Manager or Sodexo Corporate never applies them so in other words its 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 in which sucks especially if you have a family or want free time with friends but they don't care. They will not let you take days off and if you have plan days off they will tell you that an emergency came up and now you have to cancel your trip. Sodexo Managers are quick to write you up so they can pass the blame and that is how Sodexo operates on the blame game instead of fixing their internal problems. Their is no support within the organization and all other reviews are not telling the truth about Sodexo. Stay away from this company or you will regret it later after they fire you.