Pros
- Benefits are really good - Team members and business partners are generally friendly and helpful - Opportunities for movement within the company
Cons
- Unrealistic timelines for projects - No work/life balance - Expectations not communicated consistently to team members - Unjustified favoritism - Leadership lacking soft skills - Lack of mandatory implicit bias training and how to be an POC and LGBTQIA+ ally. - Method of assessing employees for annual review is highly subjective and not based on clear data provided to the employee. If you consistently get a 'consistently meets expectations' then they basically consider you almost ready for a promotion. It's virtually impossible with the workload and aggressive timelines to go above and beyond in any way. There has definitely been an ongoing mass exodus of folks from Grainger in merchandising and supply management, particularly product information teams in the past year, but leadership does not seem to care about retaining talented staff. We were treated as assembly line workers not people with graduate degrees and decades of experience who don't need to be micromanaged.