Get out while you can - Generalist McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
8 Feb 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits People (other than management) Tuition reimbursement

Cons

Toxic behavior by all supervisors and management. Fear culture of constantly being worried about losing your job. Have a bad month or two and make a few mistakes? Your job is AT RISK even if you've had several years of wonderful, positive reviews. Lies - being told we could collaborate and then get scolded for communicating with coworkers or talking 'too loud' and being 'disruptive'. Have a family emergency and need to leave work early? Better give a two day notice or you're flagged for not being committed and available. It's turned into a corporate culture and it's sickening. We are treated like robots and / or five year olds all the time. Make a mistake? You not only get told you did but also get sent a long explanation of what you did and a link to education on the intranet to ensure you don't make the same error again.

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4.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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