Overall a good place to build a career foundation and to learn how to manage - Manager McMaster-Carr Employee Review

3.0
17 Sept 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It's a entrepreneurial environment where you can really pursue your own projects and ideas. Coworkers in management are very intelligent and diverse in experience and education-- high caliber recruiting as reflected in competative salary and bonus structure. It's a true management program as you have real and significant management responsibilities and are given more (through projects/promotions) based on merit.

Cons

Upper management does not always send consistent messages over time in all areas of business (HR, promotions, priorities, objectives) and can be reactionary rather than strategic. This makes it hard as a manager to manage employees effectively over time and to know where you stand in your performance.

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5.0
7 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

4.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
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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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