Amazing experience - Intern - Hourly Graybar Employee Review

5.0
24 Sept 2019
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Pros

As a sales intern, I experienced great pay, great shadowing experience, and amazing management. I loved my experience during this internship and would not have traded it for any other. They send you to St. Louis for a spectacular experience you won't get at any other internship. If you are a go-getter, motivated to learn and grow, and looking to find a fantastic company to work for, this is the internship for you. Open door policy is EXTREMELY accurate, from CEO to truck driver.

Cons

Company can be a little traditionalist but is working on this. Change is a little slow but management is self aware and strong in continuous improvement.

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5.0
11 Jun 2026
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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
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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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