Great place to learn - Sales Trainee Graybar Employee Review

5.0
20 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great Management Comprehensive Training Program Great office culture

Cons

Pay - You will not make a lot of money unless you stay for a very long time or strike gold in a sales position

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Graybar Response
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Thank you for your review! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoy our management, comprehensive training programs, and office culture, and that you see Graybar as a 'great place to learn.' We understand your comments regarding compensation structure, and we continuously review our pay models to ensure they are competitive and reward long-term commitment and exceptional sales performance. If you'd like to share more feedback, please reach out to our HR team.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Many opportunities to learn about distribution and management. Pto is three weeks per year plus holidays and over a s Week of sick time. If you work here longer, you can buy enough company shares to receive a sizeable dividend each year. You are allowed to buy about 5% of your salary in company shares per year and then receive usually 20% of that back per year. The profit sharing plan contributes 10% of your salary to your 401k account but you need to be vested to keep it all.

Cons

You will need a second job to live. Sales reps make way more and do half the work but they report to their managers much more. If you are a CSR, sales people feel entitled to treat you however they want and their manager will back them up. You are watched by coworkers and management like a high surveillance prison especially when you're new but they will leave you alone if you're good at your job after a year or so. Graybar brags about how much revenue and profit they make but middle and upper management suck it all up leaving scraps for the workers who made it for them.

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