Great place to work if you’re in the later stages of your career
Pros
One of DXP’s greatest strengths is its employees. Generally speaking, everyone is very nice and treats each other like family. Very much an open-door type of work-place. I’ve never had an issue walking into a manager’s office and bringing an issue to their attention. It’s often easier to reach a resolution that way than to wait on them to email you back, since everyone has a high volume of work. There are a ton of opportunities to learn and grow, but you have to look for them. If you expect for someone to hold your hand and train you, you might not last long here. There are a lot of unspoken benefits that aren’t outlined in your employee handbook. Most of the managers are laid-back and let you come and go as you please, so long as you get your work done. It’s a growing company and you can see good days ahead in the future for DXP, but there are always growing pains when your company grows as aggressively as DXP does.
Cons
Wages are lower than industry standard. Raises are also very unlikely unless you raise hell, even then you should only expect 3% - 5% maximum. There are people that have worked here for 10+ years and have never been given a raise. That’s fine if you are in the late stages of your career and looking to retire soon, but if you’re in the early to mid stages, you’ll have to leave the company to get a pay bump. Never understood why a company would rather lose talent than give them a pay increase. Then hire a random person off the street for the same amount it would’ve cost to give the former employee a raise. Blows my mind, but DXP is not the only company to do this unfortunately. Benefits are not great. Vacation time starts off at 2 weeks and increases very slowly. Insurance is the most expensive out of any company I’ve ever worked for. I don’t utilize it much, so I can’t speak for the actual coverage, but they take a huge chunk of my paycheck for it and I have the cheapest plan. Most employees are over-worked and under-paid. As the company grows and acquires more businesses, your responsibilities also grow. Unfortunately, your pay does not. A 40 hour work week does not exist here; expect to spend at least 50 hrs at work, minimum.
