McMaster-Carr reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(1,354 total reviews)

Jay Delaney

30% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

McMaster-Carr has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,354 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The McMaster-Carr employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
May 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generous pay and benefits. Tuition reimbursement.

Cons

Everything else. Trust the detailed reviews of this company when applying, not the 1-2 sentence ones with five stars that are typically posted by members of HR to boost their rating. There is no room for growth if you aren’t hired into a managerial position. Pay doesn’t reflect your position, so if you get moved (not by choice) into a role with more responsibilities, your pay stays as it was. Imagine working for a company where you can’t move up in the ranks, and get moved to a different department because of business need, not because you want to learn something new. And you can’t tell them no.. Everything you do is monitored and measured monthly, quarterly, yearly, and now every six months where you have to sit in an awkward meeting with a manager who judged your work. You’re required to complete work in a set number of minutes, be checked “available for work” for 90% of your shift, and keep errors under a certain number. All of that is fine, but publishing that info twice per month and showing how you score against your peers is horrible for employee morale and created the toxic culture many have mentioned here. Imagine working for a company where you’re stressed just because you have to get measured against your peers all the time. The morale at the company is still extremely low. They take one step forward, two steps back. They’ve hired external companies to analyze the company to see how they can improve morale and then did nothing with those recommendations. If anything, they’ve made life worse for their employees. They gave time off for Covid related things while all office employees worked from home, which was great for parents when they lost their child care and were keeping their bubble tight. Then that was randomly taken away and updated so you can only use that time off If you got the virus. They told employees they would grant additional time off and accommodate schedule change requests if you needed an earlier/later shift, but now that it’s busy they changed that policy (shocker) so you’re required to use your PTO if you need to start or get off at a different time. Imagine working for a company who won’t let you change your schedule unless you use your own paid time off.. Sadly, the real reviews on here are real. Employees stay because the money allows them to take care of their kids. You don’t learn any practical skills at this job that you can take elsewhere as they prefer to always use homegrown systems and hourly employees are rarely involved in projects (another thing they said they would start doing but never did). Use the tuition reimbursement they offer to get a degree, and get out as soon as you can. It’s an old company that makes a lot of money, but isn’t focused on their employees. We don’t want a new cafeteria. We want a positive workplace environment that isn’t ran by supervisors (they’re definitely not leaders) who just graduated from college and have zero experience. We want an HR department that is non-biased like they’re supposed to be.

2.0
Jun 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart co-workers, good pay and benefits for the job you are doing, nice cafeteria, paid for education

Cons

Everything else. Management is a joke comprised of fresh out of college Ivy League students with irrelevant degrees such as Theater, Native Eskimo Languages, Etc., there is virtually no chance at advancement into management as a warehouse worker, the work is mind numbing and physically exhausting: I survived by listening to podcasts for 8 hours a day. Employees are fired at the drop of a hat so everyone is always on edge. If you sit back and observe the workforce, you will see the depression on the faces of the employees. Advice to job seeker: This place offers you golden handcuffs. Good pay and benefits for a low end job, but the trade off is no room for ambition, creativity, or autonomy over your career. If you are young I would consider going into the company, making money and getting a fully paid for education and then promptly leaving before the handcuffs get tighter.

1.0
Apr 15, 2019

Clueless and Childish Management. Stay Away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay and benefits. Consistent Schedule.

Cons

No room for advancement outside of management. Management itself is pompous, out of touch, without people-skills, and only value the opinion of other managers despite never having done the work that they supposedly facilitate.

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