Rewarding and Challenging - Intern Graybar Employee Review

5.0
Sep 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

As an intern you have the freedom to try new things and figure out where in the company fits your goals best. About as far from a "fetch coffee" internship there is. 10/10.

Cons

There is a terribly long training regimen. To get prepared to be a sales rep or help customers in any way it takes a long time to get the required product knowledge which can be very discouraging.

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Graybar Response
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Thanks for leaving a review. We are glad you enjoyed your internship! We do strive to really provide a hands-on experience for our interns so they can learn all aspects of our business.

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