When I joined I had read the negative reviews and I thought it must mostly be disgruntled employees. I was used to high-stress environments so I thought I would be able to manage it. Boy was I wrong. There is literally nothing that will prepare you for this level of toxicity. The toxicity will be aimed at you at all times and you will also be expected to adopt it toward your employees and coworkers if you wish to succeed. If you have any sense of morals and consider yourself a good person, this is not the place for you. To make it, you will have to turn a blind eye to discrimination/unsafe work conditions, nitpick performance evaluations, gaslight your coworkers and employees, and throw others under the bus more times than you think. You will go home with a big paycheck but will hate yourself every day you are there. If you plan on joining it for the MBA benefit or supposed exit opportunities, don't. I saw my colleagues go to hell and back trying to justify staying at the company while they completed their mba. The stress of making one mistake and/or being disliked by a manger and risking being fired mid-mba program took a toll on many of them. More likely than not, if you are a good person with good morals, you will end up on HR's/Management's "do not like" list, and they will textbook make your work environment so intolerable that you are forced to quit if they can't find any legal reason to fire you. The number of colleagues I saw going on mental health leave during my time was truly concerning. Additionally, I agree with other reviews here that say that your exit opportunities decline the longer you stay. This will be because no company worth working for cares you worked at McMaster-Carr and if they do, they do not have a great impression of the company and will assume you have adopted toxic work behaviors. Your best bet will be going to get an MBA that's not sponsored by McMaster-Carr. It honestly pains me when I see the new hire posts and think of what they are walking into. If you love yourself, you will not accept an offer from this company.
