Bad Management - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

2.0
Sep 14, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay, benefits and fantastic co-workers.

Cons

The work was often extremely boring. There is little or no opportunity for advancement within the company. This is due to the company's preference to hire their management trainees directly from college (no management experience) from top notch schools. What they fail to realize is that the people they are actually able to recruit from these schools are those that can't find work anywhere else (not talented). The management staff is very unprofessional and the organization is poor at leveraging their talented employees and rich culture toward a healthy work place.

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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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