McMaster-Carr reviews

2.7

25% would recommend to a friend

(1,355 total reviews)

Jay Delaney

29% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

McMaster-Carr has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,355 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
4.0
Feb 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Benefits are incredible - Co-workers are generally awesome - Progressive and always changing

Cons

- Expectations are to be almost perfect - Young leadership who has mostly never managed people - You will feel small - Work/Life balance is 50/50. Leans unfavorable as business needs are changing - Repetitive boring work

1.0
Feb 4, 2026

Horrible

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are the only reason anyone works here

Cons

You won’t use your brain at all, management is told to not care about the employees so you could have a death in the family and we’ll still make you work if you have no pto (this actually happened)

3.0
Feb 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pros: benefits seem to be unmatched. Full tuition, cps, dps, high salary.

Cons

The company and the decisions made are very strange. I have seen many people describe McMaster similar to the show severance. I did not understand until a few months in. Management is not transparent about certain decisions. We randomly lose a supervisor, not even the people who are under the supervisor are told in advance or once it happened. A new supervisor was put in a place with no introduction whatsoever. The metrics we have to meet seem arbitrarily defined. When management is questioned about the metrics, not much explanation is given. Seems like they pay smart people to do menial work. There are so many talented people who get looked over. Even though I exceed the metrics, I am under constant fear of what my metrics are every month.

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