Get Out ASAP - Generalist McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Nov 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay and benefits are incredible. I like my direct supervisor and a few of the people I work with too.

Cons

The culture is toxic. You do well and never make the mistake of having a differing opinion, you will be left alone. Besides that, don't make any kind of trouble or you will be gone. Training was incomplete. They did not properly prepare me for the work I was going to do. Just way too harsh on us. No room for improvement or promotion. No motivation to perform well besides money, which makes people work just hard enough to not be fired. Belittling, untrustworthy, micromanaging supervisors who understand very little about how to do their jobs. Do not believe them when they say McMaster-Carr has never done RIFs. This is 100% lies. They have been slowly laying people off in my department over the past year. A friend of mine worked in the same department as me and her *entire team* got laid off just a few weeks ago. No wonder people are leaving for our competitors. From the looks of the way this company is run, McMaster-Carr deserves its fate.

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5.0
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Pros

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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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