Terrible place - Manager McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
11 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The money, but you work so many hours. There are lots of other benefits like CPS and tuition reimbursement, but the company finds ways to make sure you don’t benefit from it such as rampant firings before huge bonus payout.

Cons

No work life balance. Terrible toxic work environment. Everyone is terrified of being fired. Extremely racist members of management. It’s hard to exit because you learn nothing here. Management talks really poorly about individual contributors. If you get an offer elsewhere, do not come here. They frame it as a development program, but there’s no development or structure here.

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5.0
14 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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