Consolidated Electrical Distributors

You can make money, but you have to sacrifice. - Anonymous employee Consolidated Electrical Distributors Employee Review

2.0

2 Apr 2019

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Lots of travel, good money, challenging industry, nation wide company open to transfers and moving, flexibility in the training program, excellent professional opportunities after training. Challenging product, and sales strategy with the chance to make a ton of money. Profit sharing structure is a great concept.

Cons

When your recruiter or company contact says, "blue collar" they don't just mean hard work. They mean that their worker base is monolithic. They really struggle with diversity in thought and ideas. Almost no women in the industry. I would describe the culture as non-inclusive. Pre-employment process includes a series of tests--a couple personality tests, as well as a wonderlic (the ones college athletes take to gauge intelligence). These scores are heavily weighted both for your chances of getting hired, and for your position in the company. Employees never see their own scores, although my scores were repeatedly brought up by my superiors as praise and as leverage. Ultimately your scores become a part of your professional identity in the eyes of management. CED doesn't really have a HR structure. The PC managers are the judge jury and executioner. I experienced real problems with homophobia, racism and sexism, with no structure to report or seek guidance.

Consolidated Electrical Distributors Response

Thank you for the feedback regarding your experience with CED. We certainly agree that the company offers the training and immense opportunities you described. We regret to hear of the negative impressions you formed of the company’s culture. In line with CED’s entrepreneurial business model, we strive to promote innovation and ingenuity. We seek diversity in our recruiting efforts and we embrace equal opportunity. CED promotes an inclusive culture, and employees are provided with many avenues to report any perceived violations of our policies. CED publishes the company’s hotline number on the company intranet as well as in the various work locations. Employees are also encouraged to report any concerns related to policy violations to their manager or another manager with whom they feel comfortable. Though testing and assessments are utilized as part of our employment selection process, we take a wholistic and comprehensive approach to evaluating applicants in order to select the best candidate for any particular position.

You can make money, but you have to sacrifice. - Anonymous employee Consolidated Electrical Distributors Employee Review

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