Grainger reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,986 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 4,986 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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3.0
Sep 12, 2016

Account Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Good value proposition. Good benefits.

Cons

Sales quotas are based off of prior years sales. If you have a great year, the following year your quota is unattainable. This leads to financial peaks and valleys. Focus here is to be good, not great.

2.0
Aug 19, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great work/life balance - Good Compensation

Cons

0% of management is Hispanic/Latino. They recently opened this division of the company and in San Antonio, TX. ( San Antonio/Bexar County/Texas are all overwhelmingly Hispanic/Latino) Just eyeballing Inside Sales Associate workforce, Latinos make up about 40-50% but make up ZERO managers. When you look at hierarchy, the Managers, their managers, their manager, their manager, and then the CEO, not one Hispanic/Latino in this division. So where is the diversity? Diversity means each population of the communities the company serves is represented well. As a Hispanic/Latino male, my concern is that if and when I choose to move up in the company, will I be given the opportunity? Based on current rate, apparently not. Additionally, when I interviewed which was 3 phone and one face to face, not one of the interviewers was Hispanic/Latino. I was told this week they hired a Hispanic female manager. (Who has yet to start) That is not diversity, that is the token Hispanic. That means one out of 18 managers is Hispanic. .05% if you're keeping track. .04 if you add the executive leadership. Something is definitely fishy, and EEOC is about to get some phone calls from over 20 employees asking the same thing I am asking.

2.0
Jul 29, 2016

Supply Chain

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Large company with lots of leverage with their supplier partners. 1 work from home day a week and good benefits. A profit sharing contribution every year. Investing in recent college graduates.

Cons

processes are broken, lots of work around processes or double work needed to get your job done. Downsizing to cut costs because they can't find a way to grow sales. Letting most of their tenure employees go. Relocating many jobs to Panama. Motto is do more with less.

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