Looks Good on your Resume - IT Developer Graybar Employee Review

1.0
Jun 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Health Insurance (good, but not great) Pension (I hear this is being terminated, and it no longer appears on the benefits page) Profit Sharing (Nice benefit. Retirement contributions made by company at no cost to employee) Stock Purchase Plan (Great ROI, but very slow to accumulate) Tuition Reimbursement

Cons

Salary (I nearly doubled my salary by joining another company performing the same job) Opportunity for advancement (Most fellow employees had been in the same job for 10+ years.) Deceptive Management Techniques (Your average manager makes a used car salesman seem honest. Be prepared for every excuse you can imagine when it comes to reviews/salary/promotions. I was once told that I didn't get a raise because salary is determined by title. Ok fair. Next year I was told I didn't get a promotion because title is determined by salary. Wait...What? Get everything in writing or you'll regret it later.) Feel free to learn more by working there.

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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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