Great place to learn - Management Trainee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

5.0
Jun 30, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Intensive, hands-on training that will reshape everything from your data skills to your professional mannerisms. - Other employees tend to have great people skills and interesting backgrounds. If you're early in your career, you'll find most of the other recent hires relocated to work at McMaster so people tend to become close friends, both inside and outside of work.

Cons

- Reviews for new hires can be infrequent, so it can be hard to tell whether you're doing a good job in the beginning. - The Robbinsville location is between Philadelphia and NYC so you either have to commute or live in the suburbs.

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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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