McMaster-Carr reviews

2.8

29% would recommend to a friend

(1,363 total reviews)

Jay Delaney

30% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

McMaster-Carr has an employee rating of 2.8 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 24% below average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Jun 11, 2016

Good place to learn

Recommend
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Pros

Smart coworkers, good pay, and good work hours at an extremely tightly-run business. McMaster-Carr knows what its business is and does a flawless job at it. They have the best website you've never heard of.

Cons

Because almost everyone they hire to write code doesn't have any prior training in it, their development practices can be behind industry standards, though my impression is that this is improving. Pretty old school culture — not particularly fun or experimental, though that's partly for good reason because they know what their business is.

4.0
Jun 8, 2016

Customer Service

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits! They expect excellence and you work with some great people.

Cons

Management constantly changes so it is difficult to quickly make an impression to move into other depts or projects.

2.0
Jun 4, 2016

Operations Specialist

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary & benefits. Intelligent (albeit sheepish) coworkers. Some good managers/supervisors (the good ones don't last very long...)

Cons

If you're a member of the club - 2.5 kids (or aspiring to get there), married, pseudo-intellectual, conformist - you will do fabulously. If you let the job be a job, resign yourself to collecting a paycheck without hope of advancement, and never let anything upset your health or life, you'll do just fine. There are unseen power brokers here...certain people can get away with murder while others have their HR files polluted over the most trivial of offenses. There's a constant fear of being fired and a constant drive toward the annual bonus (which is an exceptional sum). However, that feeds a predatory culture where, instead of providing support and flexibility when life happens, these unfortunates are subjected to death by 1000 HR paper cuts and, ultimately, shown the door. They are also ostracized by their peers...who wants to associate with the blacklisted in a culture of fear? Quite sad, really. I've seen a lot of good people be let go in unkind ways.

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