McMaster-Carr reviews

A lot of people were spiritually crushed working there. The company culture and tools are also so specific that after a while you feel like you don't have much to offer another employer. The culture is cold and based on fear and control. No one feels like they have control over anything. This includes managers. Because each successive level of management is micromanaged and tamped down by the levels above them, the result is an overall toxic organizational culture. This is not the place to learn the skills that can get you to your next role. If you don't know Excel well, you'll pick up Excel skills. Otherwise, the tools and systems used at this company aren't widely used elsewhere. You're also unlikely to learn solid, healthy management skills here unless you take it upon yourself to be different. Even if you that, it won't help your direct reports because of the system you're working in.

I began dreading the next day every night. The good thing about accepting for the money is after a few years here, money isn't enough of an incentive anymore. Work is so so boring. I feel like I'm wasting my life here. McMaster-Carr is recruiting you because you are capable and smart, so I recommend you go use your gifts elsewhere. If you join, stay for 3-4 years for the bag and leave. Any more than that and you pigeonhole yourself into the MRO industry space.