Fastenal Reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(5,782 total reviews)

Daniel Florness

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Fastenal has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,782 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fastenal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation and logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
7 Sept 2025

Nice Employer

Recommend
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Pros

Nice work-life balance and nice staff

Cons

heavy work, dirty environment and complicated customers to deal with

5.0
1 Mar 2015
Recommend
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This is totally garbage company to work with totally time waste . If someone reason your stupid enough to say yes and recruit yourself(like me) biggest mistake you ever done and they will not hesitate to kill by disgusting msg if you don't obey their words I should say more like a BULLY so at least think a million times before joining as employee

Cons

Management- Absolutely Pathetic .Dictator style of Management that has no idea about his job and keeps bullying and harassing all techincal guys to cover up for the self- incompetency and zero knowledge about how to run the Organization. Few people are given important roles in the office because of their apparent closeness to Management 1) No evaluation methods, they fire people if they don't like your face 2) You may be fired at any time without prior notice beware of this 3) HR professionals are horrible arrogant no respect to employees 4) JOB security is very very low 5) Unproessional people at top level 6) Many more to say but beware of this company,never ever join this hell 7) The technology sector of this company is run by a unprofessional people 8) Like BPO, they do hiring & firing in Technology as well.I have seen more than 9 fired in last 6 months. 9) Leadership does not have correct strategy to make it better, infact its going worse 10) Candidtae having good profile does not even come for the interviews

1.0
16 Mar 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Training to stress test yourself. - Makes your life easy if you wanna punish yourself. - Training for chamchagiri and petty politics on a daily basis. - Refer your enemies into it and you would regret doing that later, knowing their torture.

Cons

- Policies don't mean a thing in this place. - Anyone can be fired at any time. I've seen notice periods vary from 1 day to 3 months based on managements call. Final settlement & relieving letter is on management's discretion. - Salary can be revised at any point of time. Agreements don't mean a thing here. - Managers are very outdated technically and tactically. They are not even good at playing mind games. Every trick they play is pretty obvious, yet muscle their way with the position they have. - Most of them try to project others work as theirs. This is true especially with managers. - General practice is to hire new people for projects. Get some bakra to finish the project, pushing him to this limits. Then they fire the guy and let the idiots(with petty salaries) manage the maintenance work. - There is absolutely no good way to part ways with this company. Management will screw your life while leaving the company. - Company's future in India is doubtful as far as the technical team is concerned. - One should not have any self respect to survive in that environment. I regret meeting the management there. Worst thing to have happened to my life. Nobel peace price can be awarded to any sincere guy working there for more than one years.

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