Graybar is still a good company if you are on the right team - Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

3.0
May 2, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My management team and division was awesome. Benefits were a plus and I traveled a lot and learned a lot.

Cons

DO NOT EVER APPLY FOR SALES TRAINEE ROLE**** If you never sold before this may not be for you if your assignment isn't already producing...not enough youth in the company and a lot of the senior employees run from growth and change....the way they laid folks off during Corona season was wrong and very distasteful....they need to change their budget for new reps that 300K gross margin is not manageable if the assignment giving isnt already producing close to 50%... they need a better marketing plan to promote comm data a lot of businesses still only see electrical....DAS is the new market work closely with AT&T and VZW on getting better pricing from manufactures and start stocking more than just corning and commscope if you want to win more of these jobs.... oh yea the salaries need to be looked at moving forward aint no way a competitor is giving me 20K more to do the same job

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5.0
Dec 2, 2025
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Pros

good people and wonderful training experience

Cons

No cons so far i love it here

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Graybar Response
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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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