Great place to work, but don't plan on staying long. - Packer/Assembler McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
Jan 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic pay and company paid benefits. Wonderful bonus program and retirement. My co-workers were some of the best people I have ever met in my life.

Cons

You will work your fingers to the bone for all the benefits. Extremely fast pace environment. Mistakes are not tolerated, they expect perfection constantly. If you are going to work here, use them to get your education. Plan on only being there for about 5 years, and get out! The management changes about every two years, so plan on reproving yourself all the time. You'll spend one hour telling your new supervisor how to do your job, and the next day they are telling you how to do it.

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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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