Give employees a chance to earn a career, not merely a job. - Non Management McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
May 15, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are tremendous. The pay is well above industry average. The company is very professional in all dealings with employees. It is practically a company mantra to provide a safe, clean, and productive work environment.

Cons

The corporate culture is such that there is almost a caste system between management and employees. Management and employees usually segregate into separate groups in the break rooms, as well as at functions outside the company. There seems to be an insurmountable barrier for a regular employee to be promoted into management. You seem to have to be hired into management to ever have a shot at moving up. Also, certain departments in the company are reluctant to clearly express performance expectations of employees. I believe expectations should be quantified and clearly stated. I also believe that those numbers should be publicly posted, as this fosters a sense of teamwork, and employees are more apt to strive for better performance through competition.

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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

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Mar 4, 2026
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Pros

Good salary, guaranteed bonus, opportunities for overtime

Cons

Management changes constantly, managers are either fresh out of college or have never done your role or both, so I felt like I was managing myself. The metric standards are so high you have to essentially be perfect month after month. The standards are completely unrealistic, robotic, and leave little room for a bad day. There is PTO but you are only allowed to take it if there are “available hours” for that day - everything is about capacity and squeezing out as much work from as many people as possible. Taking time off affects your metrics for the month, which I did not know until after I took my first week-long vacation - they are always looking at your performance in terms of the past year, so I had to try to overwork and correct the bad month I had, when in my opinion your PTO should be completely YOUR time and have no adverse effect. Mentally and physically strenuous, whether you are on the warehouse side or office side - go to the bathroom too many times in a day and it will become an issue - they expect you to be glued to your desk/post. Like I said, no room to be human.

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