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      Grainger

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      Grainger reviews

      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (4,987 total reviews)
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      DG Macpherson

      87% approve of CEO

      79% positive business outlook

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      Grainger has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,987 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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      2.0
      Dec 27, 2013

      Slow paced, top heavy

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Some people are really nice here! Great HQ facility.Senior leadership are great.

      Cons

      Lots of tedious work and downtime, little development for self after 1 year. Middle level managers are very reluctant to take risk and always blame others for any mistakes they made.

      3.0
      Dec 27, 2013

      I worked for Grainger greater more than 15 years.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Profit sharing, profit sharing, vacation

      Cons

      A highly stressful and micro managed environment. A very complex company that thinks it can hire managers, especially sales managers from outside the company that have no concept of the business. No work/life balance whatsoever. The focus has shifted away from the customer to increase sales at all costs. Branch employees and sales reps are for the most part unhappy and I know a lot of them. Upper management has no idea of the overall morale of employees that have been with the company longer than 10 years nor do they care. The focus is on bringing in new blood in all areas.

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