Overall a good place to build a career foundation and to learn how to manage - Manager McMaster-Carr Employee Review

3.0
Sep 17, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It's a entrepreneurial environment where you can really pursue your own projects and ideas. Coworkers in management are very intelligent and diverse in experience and education-- high caliber recruiting as reflected in competative salary and bonus structure. It's a true management program as you have real and significant management responsibilities and are given more (through projects/promotions) based on merit.

Cons

Upper management does not always send consistent messages over time in all areas of business (HR, promotions, priorities, objectives) and can be reactionary rather than strategic. This makes it hard as a manager to manage employees effectively over time and to know where you stand in your performance.

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5.0
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

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2.0
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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