McMaster-Carr reviews

2.8

29% would recommend to a friend

(1,362 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 1,362 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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1.0
Nov 6, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Money ONLY. Benefits & money is all.

Cons

Literally everything else. No promotions or opportunity for growth. Nobody cares about you. Super weird and toxic company culture. One way this shows up over and over again is in the new HR/People policies they've implemented over the past 2 years. They’ve automated all their people management systems which are totally rigid and are unable to make simple accommodations such as to swap an hour to go to a doctor’s appointment, or switch a holiday so you don’t have to work on Christmas. The holiday policies are absolutely offensive. Our overnight shift workers are expected on Christmas Eve night and Christmas morning. Then they “get” to take their Christmas holiday on December 26th. How nice. Same thing for Thanksgiving. They work all night through Thanksgiving morning, (when to sleep then?) and then “get” a holiday the day after. (Not helpful). These types of nonsensical people practices show up time and time again, yet no matter how many times we bring it to management’s attention, they make no changes. It is truly demoralizing, offensive, and hurtful to the workers. They feel alienated and disrespected. Whereas previously we used to feel a connection to McMaster and a responsibility to have our employers back (because we believed McMaster had our back), we no longer feel this way. McMaster no longer has our back, and everyone I know now stays only for the pay and benefits. It’s sad.

1.0
Sep 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay and benefits I guess

Cons

They treat warehouse workers like they are sub human. Gaslight and abuse them. They impose impossible standards and then have 21 year old recent graduate babies give reviews and tell you how you got 3 errors out of 1,000 orders and now you are fired. They then look at you blankly as you cry and then they go home in their Range Rovers that their parents bought (bc they came from generational wealth obvi) and tell their friends what a “lame” day they had bc they had to fire some 40 year old that’s worked there for 15 years. What a bummer.

2.0
May 20, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great yearly bonus and benefits Don't think about work after work

Cons

You're tied to your micro pc all day. I was hired when we had to go into the office 3 days every 5 weeks. Then it shifted to every 4 weeks. Now they are requiring 3 days every week. They didn't ask us, management just decided. My job can easily be done remotely so there is no need to switch. When I was hired, I told them I was looking to move out of entry and into different roles. I was told 9 months - 1 year and I'd be moved. I'm coming up on 2 years and they still won't even discuss moving me even though I've asked several times. You cannot grow here.

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