I'd avoid it. - IT Specialist Graybar Employee Review

1.0
20 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Profit Sharing is great. Privately owned Fortune 500 company Most of the people I worked with were some of the greatest I've had the please of sharing an office with.

Cons

Terribly mismanaged. Arrogant managers, directors and VPs, that compete against each other rather than work towards the common good of the company. Extremely antiquated culture. If you are looking for a job where you can collect a pay check by doing the bare minimum (show up), then this it the right place for you. If you do ever have a problem, HR will NOT help you. Instead they'll do whatever they can to bury the issue vs dealing with it. As an IT professional who worked there for 6 years, I can tell you top level leadership, including the president has no idea what current technology can do, nor are they interested in a path to get there. Salaries are not competitive in today's market. I'm making 40k more a year to do the same job for my current company.

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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
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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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