White collar version of Amazon AKA run - Sales Associate McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
17 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

pay is good; they are transparent when telling you how important culture is. they clearly want people who will work themselves to death and are very good at weeding out the ones who won't quickly.

Cons

you won't make friends; you are glued to your screen every second; the emails you write are timed; you have to clock out to use the restroom so your time doesn't work against you. horrible, seriously. more than half of my cohort quit within 1 month. they randomly switch your job ie from sales to finance if they need more people.

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5.0
7 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

2.0
4 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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