McMaster-Carr reviews

2.8

29% would recommend to a friend

(1,363 total reviews)

Jay Delaney

30% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

McMaster-Carr has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,363 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The McMaster-Carr employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Jul 31, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Amazing Retirement plan - Great pay with great bonuses. Seemingly making up for the list of cons they know they have. - Lots of tenured coworkers

Cons

It seems very old school here. A 120+ year old company that has tried its best to enter into new school. I lasted all of 3 days in training. 5 days in office for 6 months until you're fully trained. No portable WFH option. They only use old school desktops and don't believe in Laptops. They tried to pawn off the excuse of, "leaving your work at the office," but ultimately, I saw through it. They're making sure you're not able to WFH anywhere other than your desk in your home office. If you want to try to lug around the desktop/monitor/computer/keyboard, etc. you can only "WFH" from GA, OH, NJ, PN, CA, and IL. Basically, you won't be able to join a friend at a local coffee shop to WFH. This is a CALL CENTER. Do not be convinced otherwise. They use the VERINT scheduling system. There is NO flexibility as to when you can take breaks, lunch, etc. Read up on some of the Slack channels when I had access: Read that an IC had to submit PTO because they were stuck in traffic and running more than 15 minutes late. It dipped into their PTO bank... Their systems also seem very outdated. They are not using any kind of common CRM system such as HubSpot, SalesForce, etc. You won't gain that kind of transferrable skill here. Seemingly has a lot of performance reviews (3 a year).

3.0
Jul 28, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Ability to work on your own with little interference with management

Cons

Collaboration non existent Only ever talk to managers about negative work

1.0
Jul 24, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is very high. People are only here for the money. That’s fine, I understand it.

Cons

Poor exit opps. You’re probably a talented senior at a T10 university reading this. Where are you going to take your career after? If someone doesn’t like you, you absolutely will get fired. This didn’t happen to me but I see it a lot. You’ll have a target on your back.

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