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Consolidated Electrical Distributors reviews

3.9

68% would recommend to a friend

(783 total reviews)
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Kurt Lasher

92% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Consolidated Electrical Distributors has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 783 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Consolidated Electrical Distributors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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783 reviews
4.0
Aug 19, 2014

Excellent starting job. Poor opportunity for advancement.

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Pros

- Excellent training provided - Friendly work environment - Decent benefits - Opportunity to deal with people from all over the country regardless of position or location. - In general, your coworkers will be hard-working, smart, industrious and helpful people. - Management is responsive to most matters outside of compensation.

Cons

- Difficulties with advancement and career progression due to extremely flat corporate structure. - Nepotism is a real problem - Unless you are in a commissioned sales position, pay is lower than market average. - A large portion of your paycheck is tied to "profit-sharing." This is essentially a bonus program that rewards you based on how the company did that year along with your manager's evaluation of your performance. This makes annual pay levels a bit difficult to predict as you could have an excellent year, but if sales are down, so is your paycheck and the "profit-sharing" is just not there to reward you. - The company also utilizes "profit-sharing" as the way of granting "raises." Base-pay increases are extremely rare regardless of position in the company.

3.0
Aug 2, 2014

It was good for a while.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good starting point. Good co-workers. Most are willing to help even if it is not the type of work they usually do. The customers are great. In a small branch you learn all areas of the day to day business.

Cons

Low pay, they consider profit sharing to be part of your salary but it is not guaranteed. If you are not a sales person, you get less profit sharing, no matter how hard you work. Constantly adding more responsibility but NEVER get a raise.

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