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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1.0
Nov 8, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, health benefits, profit sharing, tuition reimbursement

Cons

Work Schedule, No room for advancement, lack of communication by management, poor performance management, lack of challenging work, difficult time placing experience on your resume If you are looking to advance your career, this is NOT the place to do it. They place people with a wealth of knowledge and experience in staff positions, while they hire people with little to no experience managing a workfore in supervisory "management" positions. This leads to poor outcomes, especially on the "sales desk or phone contact center." Not sure why they are looking for college graduates (they even hire people with Master's degrees) to do most of the jobs. They could easilly train high school or tech school grads and have better employees. They attempt to mask unchallenging jobs with fancy titles. They do not place you in a department where your experience could best be utilized. Instead they feed you a line about "learning about this area of the business," and place you a position you have no desire to work. You have no control over what department in work in and how long you will stay there. They do not post any job openings internally. There is a culture of no one listening to "staff" employees. There is no goal setting and expectations are never clearly laid out. When they change, most likely it's never given to you in writing. Supervisors have a tendancy to not directly answer questions and there are very few written policies passed out to employees. You tend to get vague answers reagading certain areas (sick time, berevement leave, error rate, rating of calls, etc). I have never worked in a place where so many of the employees are unhappy.

3.0
Nov 3, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

awesome pay, awesome benefits... thats it

Cons

I started striaght out of college... but I was told by the recruiter that I would not be a good fit for the management training program, so I accepted a hourly level job... come to find out I wasn't a good fit because I didn't attend a ivy league type school... even though the degree I went to school for was a perfect fit the atmosphere of McM... since being employed there I have moved between 5 departments in 2 years and depending on the manager/supervisor you'll either be "meeting expectations" or about to be fired you have no opinion on any topic reguardless how many times they ask for your input, many times I have brought up ideas to see them used a month later as some new supervisors ideas vacation is impossible to get unless you have an in with the management... and no more than 3 personal days a year... don't get sick or have children that get sick this place is awesome if you can punch the clock and be a robot if you are opinionated you wont last long, either you will rub one of the HR train people the wrong way or you'll upset the management... for as diverse the employees are I've never seen a place so uptight and PC

3.0
Oct 26, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

McM gives you the opportunity to manage people early in your career, which will be an asset in almost any career you choose later. Recruits a lot of very smart college (and grad school) grads and is recognized as a place where talented people have worked within the business industry.

Cons

You have to be willing to focus on the nitty gritty details because McM is already really good at what they do.

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