Overall a Good Company but Lacking in Imagination - Senior Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

4.0
Apr 7, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stability and benefits are a plus. If you remain with Graybar and purchase stock as it is available and contribute to the savings plan, that in addition to the non-contributing pension plan will leave you in a good way when you are ready to retire.

Cons

Salaries are equivalent to a flat tax; they are the same in the rural mid-west as in the larger cities. The Enterprise offers no cost-of-living adjustment based on region. Everyone is on the same pay-scale. Additionally, with the movement to SAP all opportunities for advancement begin and end with your immediate manager. If he is not on your side it's best to resign and look for new employment unless you are happy to remain in the same role the rest of your career. No real global presence and no interest in gaining said presence. In the midst of cultural shift from old guard to a younger generation of leadership.

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5.0
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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

3.0
Apr 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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