Squid Games + Abusive Relationship = MCM - Customer Solutions McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
19 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits, good pay, some good people (but you never know who you can trust because it’s a dog eat dog environment). You won’t take work home, but will take home the feeling that you’re worthless, because they will deliberately make very intelligent people feel inferior by design.

Cons

Incredibly toxic environment, fear based culture, zero accountability. The company throws money at people instead of addressing any actual employee feedback, but creates new PR schemes to make it seem like they care (like the owner gaslighting a group of people talking about diversity being the focus because “it’s the right thing to do,” but having it only matter if/when it brings in profit). Any progress that moves the company in a positive direction (from the genuine people who do actually care) is quickly undermined, and those people are forced out. You also have zero say in your career trajectory, and they target people who see their value and want to do more. They hold financial control, just like an abusive relationship, and discredit your talent until you question your worth. Run.

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5.0
7 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

2.0
4 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good salary, guaranteed bonus, opportunities for overtime

Cons

Management changes constantly, managers are either fresh out of college or have never done your role or both, so I felt like I was managing myself. The metric standards are so high you have to essentially be perfect month after month. The standards are completely unrealistic, robotic, and leave little room for a bad day. There is PTO but you are only allowed to take it if there are “available hours” for that day - everything is about capacity and squeezing out as much work from as many people as possible. Taking time off affects your metrics for the month, which I did not know until after I took my first week-long vacation - they are always looking at your performance in terms of the past year, so I had to try to overwork and correct the bad month I had, when in my opinion your PTO should be completely YOUR time and have no adverse effect. Mentally and physically strenuous, whether you are on the warehouse side or office side - go to the bathroom too many times in a day and it will become an issue - they expect you to be glued to your desk/post. Like I said, no room to be human.

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