Call Center disguised as Customer Success - Customer Solutions McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
31 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Amazing Retirement plan - Great pay with great bonuses. Seemingly making up for the list of cons they know they have. - Lots of tenured coworkers

Cons

It seems very old school here. A 120+ year old company that has tried its best to enter into new school. I lasted all of 3 days in training. 5 days in office for 6 months until you're fully trained. No portable WFH option. They only use old school desktops and don't believe in Laptops. They tried to pawn off the excuse of, "leaving your work at the office," but ultimately, I saw through it. They're making sure you're not able to WFH anywhere other than your desk in your home office. If you want to try to lug around the desktop/monitor/computer/keyboard, etc. you can only "WFH" from GA, OH, NJ, PN, CA, and IL. Basically, you won't be able to join a friend at a local coffee shop to WFH. This is a CALL CENTER. Do not be convinced otherwise. They use the VERINT scheduling system. There is NO flexibility as to when you can take breaks, lunch, etc. Read up on some of the Slack channels when I had access: Read that an IC had to submit PTO because they were stuck in traffic and running more than 15 minutes late. It dipped into their PTO bank... Their systems also seem very outdated. They are not using any kind of common CRM system such as HubSpot, SalesForce, etc. You won't gain that kind of transferrable skill here. Seemingly has a lot of performance reviews (3 a year).

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5.0
14 Jun 2026
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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
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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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