ECommerce Giant with ton of Opportunities - Manager - Engineering Grainger Employee Review

4.0
Sep 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company is stable with a very healthy balance sheet. No roller coasters (hire-layoff-hire-layoff). Stock has continued to grow in recent years. People are nice and easy to work with. Very little politics. The CEO is stoic and down to earth. The new tech senior leadership team (CTO, VPs, Dir) is pushing to run the company more like a tech company. (engineering excellence - cloud native, microservices, continuous delivery, xp, devops). Lot of smart engineers hired in recent years. Ton of opportunity to modernize the legacy systems and grow in the process and leave your mark as an engineer.

Cons

Pay could be better. Engineering salaries cannot really compete with Amazon or other big tech. This leads to attrition of top talent to big tech. While the Product Management group knows the business really well, they still struggle with agility and true product management. A lot of initiatives are still waterfally. Tons of legacy systems around. The company is well established and not really growing like a startup or midsized company would. Hard to move into management and beyond. Culture is quite traditional and stiff. Does not have a reputation for being tech savvy like an Amazon for instance.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company to move up/around in. They have a ton of support although some of that support better than others. Definitely recommend joining the Grainger Team. Great for new and tenured sales people.

Cons

As you move up in the company it is political on if you get the role.

3.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive (not top tier, but competitive) compensation and benefits. Gym onsite & decent cafeteria that's usually a little more affordable than takeout. Mostly great coworkers. Personally enjoy work-life balance. Internal mobility is there, in abundance, but it's not highly visible or equitable and you'll need your leader's blessing so hustle and get a sponsor.

Cons

Principles plastered everywhere aren't commonly demonstrated. Do the right thing? :/ Everything else is variablly dysfunctional by team or department: days in office, accountability, effort, rewards, infrastructure/tools, workload, budget. Sales-centric org where the rest of the company is 10-20 years behind most modern orgs in structure, performance management, employee experience, skills based L&D, peer recognition, continuous improvement, etc.

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