Graybar reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(1,261 total reviews)
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Kathleen M. Mazzarella

63% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Graybar has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,261 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Graybar 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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1K reviews
3.0
May 2, 2020
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Pros

My management team and division was awesome. Benefits were a plus and I traveled a lot and learned a lot.

Cons

DO NOT EVER APPLY FOR SALES TRAINEE ROLE**** If you never sold before this may not be for you if your assignment isn't already producing...not enough youth in the company and a lot of the senior employees run from growth and change....the way they laid folks off during Corona season was wrong and very distasteful....they need to change their budget for new reps that 300K gross margin is not manageable if the assignment giving isnt already producing close to 50%... they need a better marketing plan to promote comm data a lot of businesses still only see electrical....DAS is the new market work closely with AT&T and VZW on getting better pricing from manufactures and start stocking more than just corning and commscope if you want to win more of these jobs.... oh yea the salaries need to be looked at moving forward aint no way a competitor is giving me 20K more to do the same job

2.0
Feb 6, 2020
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Pros

Amazing benefits, if you can stick it out for 30+ years, you won’t retire poor.

Cons

Don’t get tricked by the talk of upward mobility. There is a lot of room for that, but you will need to be willing to relocate every time you want to advance. The biggest flaw (for sales and support staff) is the new initiative for sales people to do more with less. I was down to 6 accounts and had less than half the staff I needed to support my customers. 12-15 hour days just to maintain current business. Upper management knows, but they don’t want to hire support staff because they would have to pay them an non exempt salary, while sales people and managers work as exempt, so work the exempt as dogs and don’t provide support was the name of the game. This is country wide, so just don’t work here. The support staff felt so over worked and over whelmed, 90% were looking for another job when I left. Again, just don’t consider this place. They only hire people fresh out of college. And the turn over rate is mind blowing. Our office was around 20 people. Since I started, over 40 people have came and gone, mostly lasting only a few months.... it’s horrendous. DONT WORK HERE IN ANY ASPECT. Not even to get your feet wet. Also, pay is horrible. They try to hide behind the benefits, but comp is paying almost double.

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Graybar Response
6y
Thank you for your feedback. We are happy that you took advantage of our amazing benefits but you bring up some issues in workload and compensation. We value our employee’s experience 100% and make sure workload is fair and manageable. We are sorry you felt this was not your experience. At Graybar, we do everything we can to ensure salaries are commensurate with experience. We use market data, in addition to a candidate’s unique skill set, experience and qualifications.
1.0
Feb 6, 2020

horrible work place

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Pros

employee stock semi good benefits

Cons

terrible management, very political constant turn over

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Graybar Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with feedback, and we value your comments and commitment to helping us improve. We agree that employee ownership sets us apart! We are sorry you had a bad experience with a member of management. However, we can promise you that our team is focused on ensuring each employee has the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully complete daily work.
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