Warehouse generalist - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Feb 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The ability to make money and earn a higher education at the same time. Nothing is better than a company in this day and age paying for employees to be educated.

Cons

There are endless amounts of cons. It all comes down to tolerance level and what you are able to live without. If you can tolerate being disrespected and treated like unintelligent children, by people you are equally if not more experienced or educated than, you could probably last a while. Honestly it is soul crushing to have to ensure the negative environment I was hired into. The work itself is fine, but the people could seriously use a major attitude adjustment.

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4.0
Jun 16, 2026
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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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