Fastenal reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(1,886 total reviews)

Daniel Florness

75% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

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4.0
Jul 8, 2012

Sales Support

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Great part-time job for college students -Flexible schedule and good starting pay -Exposure to all business displines: sales, supply chain, finance -Great place to learn personal selling skills -Essentially learn how to run your own small business -Fastenal is heavily invested in technology to make the job easier -Vending machines could be a disruptive technology

Cons

-The industry and products they sell are boring -Pay structure isn't great if you advance -Limited opportunity to advance past Branch Manager postion -Very "hands off" company, too many things are left unknown, and employee development isn't a priority -Fastenal seems "profit hungary" and doesn't value employees as their biggest assest -Tough to compete on price and value that other competitors maintain in this industry like Grainger

2.0
Jul 2, 2012

Outside Sales

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Pros

Freedom in exploiting your market

Cons

Pay is terrible, you can see this in the amount of turnover in the company, there are one or two job openings in every disctrict each month.

4.0
Jun 24, 2012

I hope you like hard work, because there's plenty of it.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is steady a workflow. Even through the worst of times, we did not see any layoffs. It's fairly easy to climb the career ladder in a short amount of time.

Cons

-This has to be some of the lowest pay in the industry. -Some people are allowed to shun duties that the dont find pleasureable. Those duties are then passed on to others, whose feet are held to the fire if the duties are not done. -Facility management can be inconsistent

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