It is a good place to work if you can meet their extremely high expectations, and you should like sports. - Product Specialist McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
Dec 9, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Benifits,Benefits,Benefits!! The starting salary was very good with annual bonuses and full medical from day one for the whole family. The work hours were very condusive for dropping the kids off at school plus no weekend work. They have an extremely high metric system of work performance that each employee needs to live up to, but if you can one could retire comfortably.

Cons

The monthly reviews were not neccessarily a downside because you knew exactly where your job performance level was but sometimes a supervisor would tell you one thing then hold you in a different light upon the numbers during review. One was never done being reviewed for job performance, so if you can live up to their expectations you are good to go.

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5.0
Jun 14, 2026
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Pros

At least in the Systems department, it’s a helpful and collaborative environment.

Cons

3 days in office and potentially long commute from the city

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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