Grainger reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(4,987 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 4,987 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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5K reviews
2.0
May 17, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of Freedom and Flexibility in the position. You run your territory and decide where to spend your time. Uncapped commission

Cons

Very transactional so there is a lot of time spent solving problems post order. Management is constantly changing and can be micro managed at times.

3.0
May 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some schedule flexibility, decent support from higher level management, decent benefits, coworkers are really cool and lots to learn from folks who have long tenure

Cons

Poor direct management, commission base is difficult to achieve, sales goals are atrocious, and Territory Sales ended up tanking after a short amount of time.

1.0
May 13, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Profit sharing, vacation, benefits, co-workers

Cons

Management was poorly suited to help employees, seemed most managers were not qualified but were hired because of their ability to be YES people. Micromanagement of employees is ridiculous, you are under a microscope for everything you do versus trusting the company has professionals within its organization. Turnover is high, therefore CS is not trained and call volumes often spike to other departments. Policies and procedural ideas are just dumb and reasons for change. I would recommend working somewhere else.

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