Won’t listen, culture lacking - Generalist Worker McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
12 May 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Health insurance and profit sharing are good. You work with many nice people who are creative and smart, it’s cool to see what people create out of the things we sell. There’s opportunity to create a nice culture and good place to work with the work life balance and primarily remote work schedule. The work can be repetitive and challenging at times, but working from home makes it manageable.

Cons

Hired under impression of only having in-person office days 3 days a month that would be focused on development and team building. The team building and development in the office is only an hour or 2 across the 3 days, hardly worth it but accepted. They are now changing to 3 days a week with no input from staff. The time in the office for generalists is a waste of time, the work is not collaborative, the commute is draining, and there aren’t even enough desks or conference rooms for everyone even before the new schedule. Everyone feels more productive at home, where we are chained to our desks anyways but at least save the commute time.

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5.0
7 Jun 2026
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

4.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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