survive working at mcmaster-carr - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

3.0
Jul 9, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

pay is good and benefits. if you are very very lucky you will get a good supervisor who will be your boss for more then 3 months. Also if you are lucky you will get one that keeps you informed if you are doing a good job or if you need to change something to do better.

Cons

a lot of unhappy miserable people to work with and they are just waiting to start trouble . You have to watch your back at all times. It is best to not be social at all . Just work your 8 and leave. I experienced a lot of bad treatment from some of the other employees . I was cussed at had to listen to nasty talk from a trainer in packing . I ignored it and never reported this. I was afraid the company would not want to here me complain. Some supervisors will treat people like kids and talk down to them even when they are younger then you or same age. This was do to poor training they had never been a boss of any kind before we are like guinea pigs . Employee cannot complain never a good idea if you want to keep your job . The sad thing is when the older woman are pushed out for the new young one by not getting raises anymore or just getting 10 cents a year. they just wanted to retire with insurance. They had no college degree so they were pushed out very sad i watched them cry at work as this was happening. The first I ever saw of age descrimination..

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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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