Don't get sucked into this god awful place. - Generalist McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Feb 3, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Pay. Benefits. Work schedule.

Cons

Management flat out lies in annual reviews. The work is mindless. No one meets expectations consistently and if they find someone that does they find other ways to belittle and demoralize them. You constantly are fearful of losing your job and people get fired regularly. Most folks won't even make eye contact in the hallway because they are socially awkard, typically management is the worst of these encounters. Zero people skills. It's a real shame because job culture is a choice. They have the foundation to be a great company to work for but for whatever reason they love to make people unhappy and watch them squirm. It's quite sick and mentally abusive actually.

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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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