Excellent - Anonymous employee McDonald's Employee Review

4.0
Aug 12, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice food, great peaks like refillable drinks. The pay is good too, and the people are very friendly as well.

Cons

Long hours and sometimes hostile customers late at night in particualar. The job is held in low estime amongst my MIT grad class to unfortunatley.

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Great management, great team, and great food

Cons

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3.0
Jul 23, 2026
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Pros

McDonald's is an exciting brand to work for with the global reach and presence. When I joined the company in 2019 it truly felt like the "McFamily" culture many who have ketchup in their veins preach. There are amazing benefits working for the company including 401k match, stock equity, and tenure based additional vacation time. The pay is also aligned with the market.

Cons

Favoritism and cliques made the Global People function feel extremely immature. Promotions were not based on merit or work product, rather who you were friends with. There were many People initiatives that were extremely unorganized and felt chaotic. Many prioritization and work eliminating efforts like offshoring parts of the HR team to Mexico City and India actually ended up adding more work to everyone's plates. Leadership took no accountability outwardly to the negative outcomes of some of these initiatives and instead would blame the HR team for not adopting, but behind closed doors admitted to the lack of planning and change management.

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