Good pay, benefits...not much else - Warehouse Worker McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Dec 9, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, benefits, profit-sharing, and a Monday-Friday work schedule

Cons

Everything else. Supervisors and Managers make errors and run their respective departments very poorly every day but get promoted. Employees who make errors are fired. With very few exceptions, the worker-manager relationship is one of the most adversarial I have ever witnessed. Employees don't trust management (righfully so) and as stated managers and supervisors treat the employees like dog dirt on the bottom of their shoes. I can count on one hand the number of supervisors and/or managers I had that actually believed in treating the employees with respect. Many of them are old school and either retired or getting near retirement. If you're a recent college grad from an Ivy League school, want a six figure salary out of the gate with little to no accountability other than showing up, and know how to condescend to and treat like dirt people with far more life experience than you (and far more work experience), then this is the place for you! If you start as an associate, plan on being that for the rest of your time there. There is absolutely no employee development unless for whatever reason. If you become a "favorite" of management for no legit reason (happens all the time), you can then get away with murder. I have seen some of the most productive and conscientious people treated like dirt and/or shown the door while slackers who do below the minimum are elevated and rewarded.

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4.0
Jun 16, 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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