Graybar Electric, Inc. - Senior Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

4.0
Dec 17, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great People, Great Vacation Benefits, Employee Owned-Stock Benefits. The company has improved in some areas that I list in the Cons. However, it is a company that feels insular in nature as it is not publicly traded. The culture is unique and it may fit if you try it on.

Cons

Compensation, Inter-department squabbles, Sales force not regarded as tip of the spear for increasing revenue. Oblivious to competition, Nepotism and "Golden Boy" favorites often guides promotions. Constant rumors (and unfortunate reality) of layoffs. Management was often penny wise and pound foolish on expenditures and expense reimbursement. Each branch varied in experience as managers sometimes ran them as their own fiefdoms. (In fairness, I think this issue is gradually resolving as managers are not allowed to homestead for an overextended period of time anymore).

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Pros

Strong department leadership in current role

Cons

Many senior team members with decades of stored brain knowledge that is hard to share

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Pros

Many opportunities to learn about distribution and management. Pto is three weeks per year plus holidays and over a s Week of sick time. If you work here longer, you can buy enough company shares to receive a sizeable dividend each year. You are allowed to buy about 5% of your salary in company shares per year and then receive usually 20% of that back per year. The profit sharing plan contributes 10% of your salary to your 401k account but you need to be vested to keep it all.

Cons

You will need a second job to live. Sales reps make way more and do half the work but they report to their managers much more. If you are a CSR, sales people feel entitled to treat you however they want and their manager will back them up. You are watched by coworkers and management like a high surveillance prison especially when you're new but they will leave you alone if you're good at your job after a year or so. Graybar brags about how much revenue and profit they make but middle and upper management suck it all up leaving scraps for the workers who made it for them.

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