Grainger reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(4,995 total reviews)
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DG Macpherson

87% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Grainger has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,995 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Grainger employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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Aug 22, 2014
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Pros

Nice work environment, great on-site health club and cafeteria, excellent resources, high-growth industry -- making hay off of global warming.

Cons

You either fit the Grainger corporate culture or you don't...and a significant number (25%?) of employees wash out here in the first year and a half. That's why reviews are so great - those are the survivors. Grainger has the most intense political environment of any company I've ever seen. Everything is gamesmanship - who you know, who you can know, who you don't know. Some managers attend 12 meetings a day, because meetings *are* management jobs. Doesn't really matter what you get done because everything will change as soon as positional musical chairs begins. People move jobs a LOT at Grainger - often after they've only been in a job for 9 months.

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