Great company if you are looking to settle down - Freelancer Graybar Employee Review

4.0
20 Jun 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This is a great company that will be there for you if you want to settle down and commit long term. Most people who have been there longer than 3+ years will probably retire with them. They offer great benefit packages, especially the stock option which can only be bought by employees.

Cons

Since most people stay for life, the company is quite old. Most people are 40+ and don't have much of a passion for what they do. Easy paycheck with relatively few stressors. So if you are looking for a boring job, with boring people, with great pay and benefits. This is your spot.

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5.0
11 Jun 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Strong department leadership in current role

Cons

Many senior team members with decades of stored brain knowledge that is hard to share

3.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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