Eh, it's a job - Bin Filler McMaster-Carr Employee Review

3.0
Jul 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, raises and bonuses are great. Benefits are fantastic and completely covered by the company. The people are really nice and management does everything it can to help you out in personal issues situations.

Cons

Communication is horrible, especially with part timers. The motto is "do more with less faster" at least in the departments in the warehouse. I was injured on the job and was treated like dirt by the floor HR person upon returning. Management as a whole, takes forever to make decisions on something as simple as choosing a permanent lunch time for each department even though they've been doing the same one for 3 months. Interdepartment policies for the same concept are different and should be uniform. Cross-training or at least shadowing should be done so there isn't so much animosity between departments. Managers and supervisors are in a rotation so every 6-12 months you get new ones which means they have to learn a whole new department in a short amount of time and there are definitely growing pains that directly affect the people in the department for a while. It causes resentment, morale to drop, bitterness and A LOT of bad attitudes.

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent people, great opportunities internally and externally to learn. Met some of my best friends there.

Cons

Can be stressful, long hours, and of course at times competitive.

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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