McMaster-Carr reviews

2.7

28% would recommend to a friend

(1,363 total reviews)

Jay Delaney

31% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

McMaster-Carr has an employee rating of 2.7 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 27% below average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Mar 7, 2010
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Pros

Benefits, pay for your education and your children's

Cons

Where do I start? All the negative things have already been said. Being managed by 21 year old ivy leaguers who never worked before in their lives who make twice what you do. These kids think they are above everyone else. They literally walk down the hall with their noses in the air and don't even acknowledge us "lowly" workers. None of the supervisors or managers have business or managing backgrounds, most are art history or some nonsense majors who probably couldn't get a real consulting job. Everything is micromanaged. If you take your break at 9:03 am instead of the 9:00 am you're scheduled, you get chewed out. Don't even think about calling in sick or going to the bathroom in between breaks and lunches. They monitor and dock your pay and it shows up on your reviews for taking bathroom breaks or calling in sick. Use your vacation day to schedule your doctor's appointments. If there's a death in the family? Too bad. Use your vacation day to take care of those matters. If you get injured? Get a lawyer because the company will use your "time off to recover" against you in a later review and fire you. If you have kids? You better have someone else take care of them during school hours. Heaven forbid your child has a doctor's appointment or needs to leave school early due to an illness. That's on your review as well. There is no room to advance. Probably 1% of management were actually promoted from within, and those people have worked for several years before that happened. The rest are "management trainees" straight out of college. On the good side, they pay for your school and have good benefits. Just do your job and don't worry too much. Being fired and getting your "separation agreement" will be the best day of your life at this place.

1.0
Feb 23, 2010

Poor management.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mcmaster and Carr has good pay and great benefits it is a clean place to work and you dont work on weekends.

Cons

Favoritism and micromanagement are at the top of whats wrong first if you are not friends with a supervisor or manager you will not advance. Second work performance means nothing in getting a raise its based on the opinion of your manager not the work you turn out thats what you are told by management. At any time you will have 5 to 6 supervisor's in your department alone telling you contradicting orders what a mess that is. I was once written up by 2 supervisor's for the same error whats really crazy is that I was on vacation that week when the error happen I could have lost my job unless I proved that I was not there it was a 3rd supervisor that made the error. The worst thing is Mcmaster will hire a new manager with no experience and they will call them MT (manager trainees) unsted of promoting from within. In 3 months these MTs will be telling you how to do your job that they cant do themselves.

3.0
May 30, 2009

Employee's potential pre-determined

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The happiest people here are the ones waiting to retire. The best benefits of any company I've ever worked for but you pay for it in boredom.

Cons

An employee’s potential is already determined upon hiring. They seem to be very proud of the caste system they have created and work hard to sustain its existence. There is a very wide division between management and the drones. Competition among the “drones” is fierce and mostly fruitless, which leads to disgruntled feelings among anyone who tries to advance. If a drone attempts any advancement, it is mostly met with confusion. Ambitious underlings (however capable) have no place in their equation. Your voice/opinion will not be heard unless you are in management. It’s true that much is expected of management. There is a revolving door of recent Ivy League graduates trying to find a “project” that will catapult them into permanency. Their jobs are similar to the drones, but MD kids get paid about twice that of a drone.

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