McMaster-Carr reviews

2.7

25% would recommend to a friend

(1,363 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 1,363 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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1.0
Dec 8, 2025

They abuse you and pay you very well for it

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Pros

Mixed feelings, if you can be okay with being abused and losing your dignity, you will be rewarded enormously.

Cons

The company essentially pays you well to tolerate abuse. The culture is sterile and fear-driven, and it feels as though anyone would throw you under the bus to protect themselves. Most people stay only for the paycheck and are ruthlessly protective of it. In the contact centers, terminations happen almost weekly. To survive, you must accept constant anxiety about job security and relentless nitpicking over even the smallest details—things as trivial as using the wrong font size in an internal email. That level of scrutiny is consistent across the entire organization. There is very little grace for mistakes. For individual contributors, the expectation is to work extremely hard during your scheduled hours, but once you’re off, you are truly off. For managers, the opposite is true: the culture demands long stretches of overtime, and those who stay long term often do so out of ego rather than maximizing financial incentive. Given the workload, senior leaders could earn more elsewhere with far healthier conditions.

3.0
Nov 25, 2025

Be aware

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Pros

Money and benefits. The average workers are really nice and smart.

Cons

You live under a constant fear of making errors

1.0
Nov 25, 2025

Great Pay, Not So Great Culture

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Pros

Pay is amazing with great bonuses. Probably better than you'll find anywhere else for the type of work, especially for an entry-level role.

Cons

Management Development rotational fails to mention that you'll probably be standing in a warehouse for 9 hours a day doing nothing. If you're lucky you might be placed in the office, but the work they expect you to complete is more than an average person can handle. Claim to have a great work-life balance but I spent many evenings and weekends either required to work shifts or to catch up on work. Be prepared to be uprooted from your work and placed in another role with little to no heads up. Management treats individual contributors like lower class citizens. High pressure work with competition between everyone in the management program.

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