Training is Lacking, Good benefits - Sales Graybar Employee Review

3.0
Sep 24, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

There is room to grow, the benefits are good, is a stable sales job.

Cons

There isn't much training for new hires. You have to do a lot of trial and error, and figure things out on your own. There's no curriculum in place on learning sales or learning the vast product knowledge. They have 1000s of products and it would take years to learn this or scratch the service which makes it harder to be a value to customers.

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5.0
Mar 24, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great leadership at this local branch. Benefits were great. Education was great as well

Cons

None that I can think of

3.0
Apr 6, 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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