Good place to learn - Software Developer McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
Jun 11, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Smart coworkers, good pay, and good work hours at an extremely tightly-run business. McMaster-Carr knows what its business is and does a flawless job at it. They have the best website you've never heard of.

Cons

Because almost everyone they hire to write code doesn't have any prior training in it, their development practices can be behind industry standards, though my impression is that this is improving. Pretty old school culture — not particularly fun or experimental, though that's partly for good reason because they know what their business is.

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4.0
Jun 16, 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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