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      Grainger

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      Grainger reviews

      4.0

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (4,996 total reviews)
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      DG Macpherson

      87% approve of CEO

      80% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      Grainger has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,996 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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      5K reviews
      3.0
      Aug 26, 2015

      Sourcing

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good learning, wide exposure,

      Cons

      decision making power not in hand, too much system oriented

      2.0
      Feb 12, 2014

      Good, but should be great!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      AGI is the leader in the market, with only 8% of market share. The room to grow in unlimited. There is a lot of good people (not all). Solid growth, double digit, from 2009 through 2012. Very profitable margins. Amazing if you compare it with CPGs. The power of scale, international presence and a strong financial position makes AGI a hard competitor to beat if can align those factors to its favour. It can grow forever through acquisitions.

      Cons

      AGI lacks of a solid and homogeneous HR policy, everything is left to your boss. Because of it, in departments with a bad manager key talent with years of experience is either moving on, taking early retirement or leaving without a job. This is being specially notorious in the logistics area now (2012-2014) and AP before. Bad results due to bad managers can go for ever where no sound resolution is taken. A SVP of HR was replaced but nothing really improved. AGI is being 'taken over' by its owner Acklands in the US. In the mist of excellent results the president (Sean o'Brien) was let go and a new American president is in place. More VPs are American every time there is an opportunity and the executive team is becoming a figure on paper. To get promoted or supported it is more important your relation with your one up and who you know than your results. Your one up has total power over your future.

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