Grainger reviews

You either fit the Grainger corporate culture or you don't...and a significant number (25%?) of employees wash out here in the first year and a half. That's why reviews are so great - those are the survivors. Grainger has the most intense political environment of any company I've ever seen. Everything is gamesmanship - who you know, who you can know, who you don't know. Some managers attend 12 meetings a day, because meetings *are* management jobs. Doesn't really matter what you get done because everything will change as soon as positional musical chairs begins. People move jobs a LOT at Grainger - often after they've only been in a job for 9 months.

- Jobs are very compartmentalized so making decisions and getting things done is difficult and slow. Jobs that are typically done by one person at many companies are done by two. - Too many layers of management - Too much focus on operations and how we work, not enough on what is actually being done - Bonuses and raises are below industry average - Company is dealing with constant pressure to reduce cost and is afraid to spend money reinvesting back in the business despite huge profit margins due to a large commitment back to its shareholders. - Company values personality more then competence and skill set, most decisions are made on charisma not intelligence