Pros
Pay and benefits are incredible. I like my direct supervisor and a few of the people I work with too.
Cons
The culture is toxic. You do well and never make the mistake of having a differing opinion, you will be left alone. Besides that, don't make any kind of trouble or you will be gone. Training was incomplete. They did not properly prepare me for the work I was going to do. Just way too harsh on us. No room for improvement or promotion. No motivation to perform well besides money, which makes people work just hard enough to not be fired. Belittling, untrustworthy, micromanaging supervisors who understand very little about how to do their jobs. Do not believe them when they say McMaster-Carr has never done RIFs. This is 100% lies. They have been slowly laying people off in my department over the past year. A friend of mine worked in the same department as me and her *entire team* got laid off just a few weeks ago. No wonder people are leaving for our competitors. From the looks of the way this company is run, McMaster-Carr deserves its fate.