Good for those within the inner circle - Recensione dipendente - Senior Outside Sales Representative presso Graybar

3,0
1 lug 2020
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Great benefits, opportunities to transfer, plentiful career opportunities as people retire.

Svantaggi

Rigid corporate environment. Poor operations systems (ordering, inventory, project management). Lack of support for sales unless you played office politics and got the district management on your side. Uneven spread of internal resources. Company officers are often in their 60's and lack new ideas or a fundamental understanding of modern technology or work methods. Low starting pay compared to competition. OSR's are expected to work 60 hours/wk minimum and be in the office to "look accountable" regardless of if that is best for their sales or not. Layers and layers of "account managers" or "business development managers" who siphon off profit from the SR but do no actual work on the account.

Esplora altre recensioni su Graybar

5,0
1 lug 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Lots of experience, hands on learning

Svantaggi

Lack of compensation ( money-wise)

3,0
6 apr 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

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.

Svantaggi

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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