Don't Come Here - Operation Supervisor McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Jan 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Pay but is it even worth the mental health decline

Cons

Where do I even start: - Upper management that care more about being right than the operation/empathy for workers -Justification of their pay and benefits to overwork you and drive you into mental health decline - People being scared to share mis-information spread by upper management due to risk of job loss but lots of company talks of "transparency" - Going back on promised department changes/rollouts to find reasons to mark people down in performance - And more

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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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