Solid - Outside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

5.0
May 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work environment, but be ready to work. Great benefits package and being ESOP it makes it worth while.

Cons

You need to work outside of houses some days.

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Graybar Response
11mo
We appreciate your review and thank you for sharing your experience! It's great to hear that you value our work environment and appreciate the benefits package and our employee ownership, which is designed to make everyone feel invested in our shared success. We understand that field work can be part of the role, and we aim to balance that effectively. Thanks for being a dedicated member of our team! If you'd like to share more feedback, please reach out to our HR team.

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5.0
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Pros

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

Cons

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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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