Used to be a great company to work for - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
7 Apr 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company offers a wonderful benefits package and a great salary over time if you do well. Great Medical, Dental Optical, College Reimbursement, Help with your kids college, and a profit sharing plan that is second to none.

Cons

People have been taken out of this place on a stretcher from the stress. New management teams are coming straight out of school with no experience and given waaay too much authority over people that know what they are doing. If you are not in management and even if you are lower management. Be prepared to take a lot of abuse. Learn to shut up and do what you're told, even when they ask for your input (unless its exactly what they want to hear). Very sick environment to work in. Though the pros are wonderful, in my opinion the cons outweigh them.

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4.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

- Pay/benefits are incredibly generous - People are generally easy/nice to work with - Note that the Systems department seems to be fairly isolated from the negative issues discussed in other reviews (e.g. tension between warehouse workers and management) - I haven't experienced any of those issues within the systems department. In my opinion, Systems is a great place to work and develop as an engineer. - Hybrid work style (3 days in office). Personally, I like hybrid more than both fully in-office and fully remote styles. - Great cafeteria with good food and cheap prices. - Good work/life balance (outside of being on call, I can leave work at work).

Cons

- Work is not super interesting to me. I come from a highly technical, but very different (not ecommerce/industrial supplies), background where I was doing work I was much more interested in. No doubt there are folks in Systems who love the domain though. - While I'm not on call a ton (1-2 weeks every few months), I really hate being on call. I like to leave work at work. Note that joining at least one reliability team is expected within your first year or so.

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