Grainger reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,991 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Grainger has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,991 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Grainger employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
Jun 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The Benefits they have are good

Cons

Grainger used to be a great company to work for but for the last 4 years things have really taken a turn. Thru have basically cut down as many jobs as they can and just overload people plates with work for not very great pay. They also are going to far into the equal race movement and denying white very qualified people jobs purely based on their skin tone. I understand hiring all races of people for sure but I don't agree with denying a white person a job of they are the most qualified for it the job and it's happening more and more at Grainger which to me is still racist. There needs to be a middle ground there. I've had to take on the job of 2 people and didn't get paid anything additional to do it and I'm not the only one at this company that complains of these things. So many work so hard to try to progress themselves but often times get nowhere because they don't "know the right people" again I understand the idea of networking but at Grainger it is getting a bit to clicky in the sense that no matter how much you develop yourself you won't get the job over someone else who simply "was in good with the right person " I understand many fortune 500 companies can have this but I have experienced Grainger to be much different in the past and so have many others. Grainger overworks employees and under pays them so that they can come out "making money" and basically only benefiting board members. These days I would not recommend grainger as a place to work that has a positive moral nor a place that cares about its employees. Basically all the things they try to advertise about themselves caring about employees is just to "check a box" they ultimately don't care or at least the way they work and pay employees is not shown. Also they haven't provided a cost of living raise in years.

1.0
May 24, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

benefits, work from home, pay is ok

Cons

Terrible work life balance. Better pray you're not sick more than 5 days a year or they will fire you. They won't even accommodate you missing an hour of work for a last minute (week notice) doctor appointment. Your time is micromanaged and your numbers will be negatively impacted by long customer calls that you can't control. Your "supervisors" never want to help out with issues you have. Customer demanding to talk to a supervisor? Tough because no one will help you with that. Very stressful for a job that is seen as easy.

1.0
Apr 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits Overtime if you want it

Cons

Greenville DC is terrible with poor management they change supervisors too much and hire the ones with no people skills. I was with the company 8 years after they stopped the profit sharing I had to go and never got promoted to upper grade level. They only give positions to whom they are buddies with. I would think twice before working with Grainger.

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