Good Employee Support, No Room for Growth - Product Support Representative McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
Sep 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits, solid pay and bonuses, and great employee support (personal days, vacation, perks, and personal/family support). Great co-workers and good work environment.

Cons

Little to no room for advancement. Performance reviews are weird, often vague, and overgeneralized. One minor infraction can be considered a trend. The overall performance and function of the company as a whole feels very secretive. It is hard to know where things stand specifically within your department. Just when you feel things are going well and operating smoothly, they switch things up with new department supervisors and managers, change methods and systems. It disrupts efficiency and severely impacts morale.

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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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