Grainger reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

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

80% positive business outlook

Grainger has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 4,991 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent 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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4.0
Nov 23, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Big picture - Grainger is an awesome company. A company that strives to make decisions to do what is best and what is relevant for the customer, but also, making the best business decisions as a company. Grainger works to continually improve upon everything they do - be it processes, services, customer relationships, external / internal partnerships, management leadership, talents, benefits, profits, developing their employees, and much more.

Cons

Company tends to evolve every 2-3 years, which brings change (not necessarily a bad thing). With change some hard decision may have to be made for sustaining customer relationships and for the longevity, as well as profitability of the company. If you're not willing to accept this change, you may have a difficult time adapting to Grainger's culture. I fell victim to this re-organizational change. But, I understood that this was a business decision and not personal.

3.0
Nov 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay to start out with decent benefits, better than you'd get in a lot of places PTO, employee stock plan, 401k, etc

Cons

Supervisors/Department Managers don't seem to quite know what they're doing Constantly running low/out of materials, including those requires for the job Inability to "plan ahead" by management; constantly running into bottlenecks Generally disgruntled workforce (and to be honest, for good reason a lot of the time) mandatory overtime

4.0
Nov 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great competitive wages, potential for great teams, amazing paid time off / vacation benefits, wonderful opportunities for advancement, career oriented goals

Cons

Managers are hit or miss in the various locations. I've only had the pleasure to work with a handful of great ones and all the others were trash. Favoritism runs rampant in the company. The healthcare options were expensive and mediocre.

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