Grainger reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,985 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 4,985 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
Jun 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The people are what kept me around the longest. Great team environment and they setup sales territories well so we can all work together and share best practices. Decent opportunities to advance if you make yourself known to the correct people.

Cons

Heavy changes since new upper management. Multiple confusing compensation plans over the course of a year, unrealistic sales goals, poor communication from upper management down. Good leaders are being pushed out for analytical drones that care more about updating CRM, and getting to every customer every month than actual sales results. Shifting many customer service roles out of the country and replacing them with people who can barely read from a script. Dwindling benefits, used to have one of the best profit sharing programs out there, but has now been cut to nearly 40% of what it was.

2.0
May 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work life balance the people are friendly and helpful. If you work hard it will not go unnoticed

Cons

Pay is not the best. Profit share has been reduce over the years. Performance reviews are a joke don't expect more than 2%. Its all about reducing cost and headcounts. Do more for less .This place has too many mid level Management top heavy. They have no process and procedure ask 5 people how to do something in SRM system and all of them gave me wrong instruction. The people here are NOT STRATEGIC.

3.0
Mar 30, 2017

Endless change without a clear destination

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, good benefits (though declining hard and fast), nice work environment, work from home options, location.

Cons

Employee benefits declining hard and fast, seems like endless change without a clear vision and strategy, family oriented culture is gone

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