Make sure you have a good therapist - Supervisor McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Feb 4, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

pay and benefits. Good resume builder for folks with liberal arts backgrounds.

Cons

Everything else. Management undercutting each other for the next move, meaningless and mundane work, inconsistent performance evaluations. Once this place decides a narrative about you, there's no changing it. They will belittle you until you quit or until they fire you. So, make sure you've got a good therapist :) Don't worry, their insurance covers it,

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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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