Too toxic - Business Analyst McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Jan 30, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay, benefits, work life balance (in some roles)

Cons

Everything. If you even make one mistake, they are so unforgiving. You can get a successful performance review one day and they can fire you the next month. Upper management is so toxic and rude and scary. They truly operate on a culture of fear and I don’t know one person who works at the company who enjoys their time. Everyone it’s constantly anxious and it is not worth the health problems. This is a job, not a career. None of the roles are transferable to other companies since most of the opportunities are very niche. I would only work here if you expect to stay for less than two years.

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4.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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