McMaster-Carr reviews

McMaster-Carr doesn't promote full time staff to management positions; rather, they seek recent college graduates from particular institutions. As one of those graduates, I found that they promoted "innovative" ideas but weren't actually open to these ideas. There was a lot of tension between management and staff--staff could never be promoted and were often far more competent than their supervisors. I found the atmosphere to be very negative, and the people to be untrustworthy (i.e., one manager was known from "back-stabbing") which made it difficult to ask questions. The company was trying to promote more female leadership, but there was no trust or unity amongst the female trainees as they were vying for promotions. Overall, I didn't feel it was a place where I could learn how to be a good leader and how to manage people--and the negative atmosphere led me to leave. As a trainee, you have to participate in inventory at least 1 time a month until you're promoted

No career advancement. The organization is flat, with only two levels, generalists and managers. Don't be fooled by the managers, they are kids straight out of ivy leagues, who may have had awesome grades, but come from non-business backgrounds. Anotherwords, they have no idea what they are doing, yet they are taken alot more seriously than anyone else, who may have had management experience. They get placed to manage people and criticize their work, when they actually haven't spent time in the positions themselves to understand their work. The company lies when recruiting to get people into the door, you may be placed in dept you hate only to be told you can't be moved because they have a plan for you. They don't, they move people around or keep people in the same positions for long periods of time, just because. You have no say or flexibility where you want to go within the company. Also, there are no promotions ever to upper management. The atmosphere is extremely negative, they never have good feedback for you. You always feel like you are walking on eggshells, never knowing if you may be let go next. They fire people with years of experience within the company for no reason at all.