Look elsewhere. - Inside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Oct 12, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Vacation and healthcare are good.

Cons

Work-life balance is horrible. You come in and work like a dog. Outside sales reps do nothing but pawn work off on CSR’s, ISR’s. They meet with customers and play golf or eat and drink on the job. Don’t do their jobs. Quotes pod’s will not quote unless a OSR sends it to them. Huge boys club, if you like frat environments then look no further. Pay is below industry average too, if you want to make good money run away as fast as possible too. The 401k match is horrible. Have to put in 6% so they’ll do 3%. Employee stock is horrible. You’re giving the company a loan advance on available cash. They take your 20$ per share, and you get no return but 20$ in the future. 20$ now isn’t eh same as 20$ in the future. You get dividends of 10 cents and 30 cents and every 75 years they go crazy and maybe give you 1-7$ per share somehow. They just use your cash as available cash. Margins are thin in distribution. Not a good company to work for.

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5.0
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Pros

good people and wonderful training experience

Cons

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Graybar Response
6mo
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. We’re thrilled to hear you’re enjoying the training experience and the team environment. We appreciate you being part of Graybar and are glad to know things are off to a great start. If you’d like to share any additional feedback, please reach out to your local HR team.
3.0
Apr 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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