A terrible place to work, unless you're management tracked - Regular Employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
31 July 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, solid benefits, a (very) standardized schedule (for instance, NEVER weekends, overtime, etc)

Cons

Unless you are a management trainee you have zero chance of becoming anything worthwhile with this company. You could have a degree from a great school with a genius level IQ and you will be overlooked for every opportunity just because they are locked into whoever they recruit from alledgedly good schools. I understand a company's desire to recruit and train but its absurd that such a line is drawn that there is zero opportunity for advancement by anyone else within the organization. In fact, it is a terrible way to do business. The company is really an enigma because even the young managers seem to bail out after short time. Basically, this company sucks to work for, unless you are dumb enough to do the same thing over and over each day for what is good pay, honestly. But anyone with an IQ above their blood temperature should look elsewhere, in fact, run for the hills. This company could be something so much better if they developed a stronger team environment from top to bottom. Unfortunately many of the young managers have not evolved from their cliquish high school mentality. Good riddance!

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
4 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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