Old Company, Old mentality - Inside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

3.0
Sep 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, good people. Stable future with the company if you just show that you want to be there for the long run. If you want to have the freedom to move around the country and keep a steady job, Graybar has over 240 locations in the US and they will help you with your move sometimes.

Cons

Training is mediocre. It's more of a sink or swim mentality in the sales department. Pay is pretty low compared to other companies in the industry. And commissions are only provided at the end of the year based off of your yearly budget, which basically gives zero incentive on a monthly basis and doesn't even come out to a sizable sum. Turn over is terrible in the sales department. People are always coming and going.

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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
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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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