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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4.0
Aug 7, 2014

Can Be Good

Recommend
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Pros

Work stays at work. Lots of smart people. Great benefits and good pay. Lots of small perks that are not reasons to accept a job, but are nice to have - free sports/theater tickets, reduced movie and theme park tickets, holiday party, outings, picnics, oil changes, car rental discounts.

Cons

Culture is very "unique." They have done some to make it not quite so negative, but have a long way to go. Supervisors and managers are straight out of college, and often have no idea how to do the work, along with no work experience, much less mgmt skills. Almost no room for advancement, if you're not hired in to the management track.

2.0
Jul 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For what we do, the pay and benefits are amazing. They rival military grade benefits. I often found myself saying, "I'm doing what for what?"

Cons

Revolving management and supervisors. In the short time I have been here, (1.5yrs) I have had 4 different supervisors and 3 different managers. This is just one of the major problems, however the most pressing is the expectation of the company on the individual employee. For my position, I had to maintain a less than .01% error rate. Errors are defined as any time a Bin Receiver sends to stock incorrect materials, send customer incorrect materials, sends incorrect quantities to stock or customer, or incorrectly identifies attributes of material. There are many other ways for one to receive an error, these are just the most common. Once an employee starts to receive a few errors, management looks at this as a "trend" in one's behavioral pattern. Once a trend has been established, it is reason enough to terminate the employment of the individual.

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