I had to unlearn everything I learned about managing people - Ops Manager McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
23 Jun 2025
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Pros

health benefits were great salary was good for the first few years out of college, but you can make much more elsewhere by the time you're 30 employee discount on things like ziploc bags, which I'd otherwise buy at target

Cons

there are countless reviews here stating the arbitrary nature of evaluating ICs, and they're really all true. when I was a supervisor, the manager I worked for used a buggy, broken spreadsheet to hastily calculate everyone's performance metrics, and there were plenty of errors. people lost their jobs over it, probably mistakenly. once, someone made a pretty harmless, sarcastic joke about a colleague, and we had to have like 5 HR meetings over it.

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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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