McMaster-Carr expects a great deal of its management and gives good benefits and work opportunities in return. - Supervisor McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
25 Oct 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great compensation and benefits, excellent opportunities to manage people early on in year career. Well run company that has taught me a great deal about how to manage for efficiency and productivity. Good opportunities for advancement and rotating through various management positions to gain experience in different functional areas. Good work life balance - reasonable hours. They do not call you in to work when you are not scheduled to work. You do not have to take work home. In fact taking work home is discouraged. Lastly, almost everyone, employees and management, is pretty good at what they do. It is refreshing to work with colleagues who you can count on.

Cons

The company expects you to work very hard when you are at work and to be very good at what you do without much praise or encouragement. The culture can be somewhat rigid or restricting - when you are at work you are expected to be working. Because incompetence, or even mediocrity, is not tolerated it can feel like you are always on the verge of getting fired even if you do good work.

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5.0
14 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

At least in the Systems department, it’s a helpful and collaborative environment.

Cons

3 days in office and potentially long commute from the city

4.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Pay/benefits are incredibly generous - People are generally easy/nice to work with - Note that the Systems department seems to be fairly isolated from the negative issues discussed in other reviews (e.g. tension between warehouse workers and management) - I haven't experienced any of those issues within the systems department. In my opinion, Systems is a great place to work and develop as an engineer. - Hybrid work style (3 days in office). Personally, I like hybrid more than both fully in-office and fully remote styles. - Great cafeteria with good food and cheap prices. - Good work/life balance (outside of being on call, I can leave work at work).

Cons

- Work is not super interesting to me. I come from a highly technical, but very different (not ecommerce/industrial supplies), background where I was doing work I was much more interested in. No doubt there are folks in Systems who love the domain though. - While I'm not on call a ton (1-2 weeks every few months), I really hate being on call. I like to leave work at work. Note that joining at least one reliability team is expected within your first year or so.

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