Good foot in the door - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are excellent and it doesn't matter what your degree is in to have a job there. Most of the people are genuine.

Cons

Forget about advancing unless you are from an Ivy League. No word about your progress until review time and then be careful what you sign. Sick days are highly frowned upon. People always unsure about whether or not they'll have a job. Very little training but a lot of trial by fire.

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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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