High pay, but look elsewhere immediately - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
5 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nearly none. The pay is good but if you accept an offer here, start looking for another job quickly.

Cons

You will need an exit strategy almost immediately. There's no future here, micromanaging is extreme, your performance is largely dictated by people who have no interaction with you or your work. They are privately held and will ABSOLUTELY fire individuals for small and vague reasons despite how long they have remained. If you do any work in research, systems, or strategy you will need to find an exit path quickly. It's shocking how demeaning this company is, I know so many people in therapy because of this place.

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5.0
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

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2.0
4 Mar 2026
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Pros

Good salary, guaranteed bonus, opportunities for overtime

Cons

Management changes constantly, managers are either fresh out of college or have never done your role or both, so I felt like I was managing myself. The metric standards are so high you have to essentially be perfect month after month. The standards are completely unrealistic, robotic, and leave little room for a bad day. There is PTO but you are only allowed to take it if there are “available hours” for that day - everything is about capacity and squeezing out as much work from as many people as possible. Taking time off affects your metrics for the month, which I did not know until after I took my first week-long vacation - they are always looking at your performance in terms of the past year, so I had to try to overwork and correct the bad month I had, when in my opinion your PTO should be completely YOUR time and have no adverse effect. Mentally and physically strenuous, whether you are on the warehouse side or office side - go to the bathroom too many times in a day and it will become an issue - they expect you to be glued to your desk/post. Like I said, no room to be human.

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