McMaster-Carr reviews

2.7

28% would recommend to a friend

(1,363 total reviews)

Jay Delaney

31% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

McMaster-Carr has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,363 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The McMaster-Carr employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
May 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits and salary, although starting salaries no longer appear to be keeping up with the industry standard.

Cons

Negative work environment. You are constantly reminded of your errors. Employees are micromanaged and their productivity is measured down to 15-minute increments. They have a naive, constantly rotating, management group that has to deal with their own possibility of employment termination so they do very little managing and much more dictating.

1.0
Mar 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay checks, the benefits. Nothing else.

Cons

The company does zero career planning with us. The future feels so vague and there's nowhere to go, no carrot on the stick, no promises of growth or promotion, or opportunity. Every single change has been relatively unwelcome unpredictable, and unreliable manner. At any moment our schedule or role could change and having gone through that so many times has given me serious work related PTSD. I have so much anxiety at this company. The pressure of trying to achieve lightning speed perfection has done so much damage to my self esteem and has raised my base line anxiety to a level that it has impacted my relationships outside of work. I'm worried about the long term effects the stress has had on me.

1.0
Nov 5, 2023

No innovation, no long-term vision

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits but these are now being pulled back. Slightly above industry pay depending on your position. There aren't a lot of positives about staying here more than a few years. The benefit that used to keep people here, the retirement plan, aren't actually viable for the majority of people. Most people will be pushed out within a few years across all tiers of the company. The work life balance since the pandemic doesn't exist anymore - you're expected to get impossible workloads done after hours. They are also forcing people back into the office at minimum 3 days a week without any flexibility. If you have children or are planning on having children there are no allowances to change your schedule.

Cons

Many of the one-star reviews capture what is wrong with working at this company. In addition to those, the employee morale has completely disintegrated over the last year. They have reorganized roles and expectations three times in the last three years and none have helped keep people. The addition of new roles and opportunities for career growth are not practiced. Promotions are not actually possible but are continually promised. Many people were promised career growth and pushed to work harder under that promise. Those individuals are not being promoted for any and all subjective reasons they can find. More disturbing is that these reorganizing attempts are now used to justify pushing people out. HR does not actually care about DEI, only the illusion of it. Most of the "diversity" they boast lives at the IC level and next to none in leadership. They point to a few token promotions to dispell this but every team I've worked on has been male leadership only and most of the female leadership has been fired or pushed out. They've spent the last four years chasing innovation only to fail at all. For others considering working here, do so only if you just but remember that the way they expect employees to operate, is not true anywhere else. You cannot translate skills here to outside of the company, what you learn will be limited and can negatively impact future employment. This is especially important to remember when you know they will actively push you out after a few years. I've actively discouraged others from applying here before because of how much it'll damage their career prospects and mental health. Managers will absolutely lie about what they say and want, without shame and even with evidence to the contrary. Make no mistake, you either will have to make people cry or you yourself will be crying. This isn't a tech company where having the name on your resume will help you elsewhere.

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