Operations Supervisor - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
28 Dec 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good experience managing people. Good experience asking yourself the five whys and digging deep into operational machines

Cons

The culture here is dark and disheartening. No one speaks nicely to one another at the management level, everything is condescending, passive aggressive and feedback laden. If the company really wanted its employees to succeed, they would let them try out the same process for more than 2-3 weeks without changing 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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