Great Place to Work - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
Mar 8, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are unbelievably generous work/life balance Lack of stress for non-management 40 hours a week, OT and holidays are strictly volunteer only

Cons

If you're not hired as a supervisor or manager you probably never will be Supervisors and managers switch departments frequently for their own development so there is a lot of leadership turnover It's not very fulfilling work, but it lets you have plenty of time to do what you love outside of work.

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4.0
Jun 16, 2026
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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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