Fastenal reviews

3.4

62% would recommend to a friend

(5,829 total reviews)

Daniel Florness

76% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Fastenal has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 5,829 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fastenal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
Sep 20, 2011

Tried very hard

Recommend
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Pros

Experience, training, and benefits are all great. The major medical insurance was pretty good overall. When I worked there I thought I had bad insurance but little did I know it's actually really good. You gain a huge amount of experience in your time here.

Cons

Really the biggest cons were the pay and the work/life balance. In order to be successful here you need to dedicate a significant amount of time (55-65 hours a week) and not really get pid for it unless your store is really big, which they want but ultimately will split stores when they get really big and busy. But in order to get big you need to put in huge hourseach and every week. If you're single, go for it, you can be rewarded if your store grows. But if you have any turnover, and you will, then you're back to square on.

2.0
Sep 17, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent place to observe what great customer service is all about. Nice co-workers and store manager. Good first job for someone wanting to join a company early in their career and get on-the-job training. Very straight-forward processes in areas like computer systems and store layout. Appreciate management understanding of learning curve.

Cons

Near minimum wage. Cheap. If learning how to identify thousands of industrial parts and getting dirty is not your thing, this is not the job for you.

3.0
Sep 15, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

You can move up very quickly if you know what your doing.

Cons

Goals were way out of control but expected(shoot for the stars if you miss you still reach the moon). Once a branch manager your stuck their, no raises just smaller commission unless you lans huge accounts.

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