Fastenal reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(5,824 total reviews)

Daniel Florness

75% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Fastenal has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 5,824 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
2.0
Sep 21, 2022

Broken Promises

Recommend
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Pros

Good for entry level sales

Cons

Was completely lied to regarding the position in the interview. Got a promotion very quickly and actually earned less because of their terrible commission structure. Asked for a raise after 1 year and was told we don’t do raises by the district manager. So if you need to pay a mortgage this isn’t the place to work.

3.0
Aug 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, culture, and core values.

Cons

They understaff to the point of employee burnout. There is no way to anonymously report issues, and when you do nothing gets solved. So decentralized that it causes issues once employees talk to each other and see how differently teams are treated.

2.0
Mar 10, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

In remote areas it can be a good job. If you're willing to drink the blue kool-aid it can also be a good job.

Cons

Each store is a very different experience to work at. If you land in a good store you'll enjoy your time. If not you'll hate your experience. Their vision is not very focused. They want to do primarily B2B sales and yet have their stores open to the public thinking they're going to compete with Home Depot and this really distracts the team. Instead of being on the road making sales, delivering product, working up your commission - you're stuck baby sitting a store. On the subject of commission - they looove to play games with commission and they expect exponential growth otherwise your commission takes a hit. Anyone with a basic understanding of math knows exponential growth is not sustainable. If i made you 30k in profit during January of one year, my commission should be the same (not half) if make you 30k in profit during January of the following year.

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