You can't fix stupid - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
29 Oct 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary, profit sharing, retirement package, and benefits can't be beat for the forty hour work week.

Cons

Management is full of the stupidest smart people. Ivy league college graduates that majored in nothing useful to bring to the company. Maybe one out of 10 can actually manage. Most have no clue what they are doing even after being there over a year. So basically incompitient. I am finishing my MBA and have given feedback several times on how to improve processes and it gets swept under the rug or immediately shot down. They don't care about moral either.

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4.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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