Can Be Good - Sales Specialist McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
7 Aug 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Work stays at work. Lots of smart people. Great benefits and good pay. Lots of small perks that are not reasons to accept a job, but are nice to have - free sports/theater tickets, reduced movie and theme park tickets, holiday party, outings, picnics, oil changes, car rental discounts.

Cons

Culture is very "unique." They have done some to make it not quite so negative, but have a long way to go. Supervisors and managers are straight out of college, and often have no idea how to do the work, along with no work experience, much less mgmt skills. Almost no room for advancement, if you're not hired in to the management track.

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5.0
7 Jun 2026
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

4.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay/benefits are incredibly generous - People are generally easy/nice to work with - Note that the Systems department seems to be fairly isolated from the negative issues discussed in other reviews (e.g. tension between warehouse workers and management) - I haven't experienced any of those issues within the systems department. In my opinion, Systems is a great place to work and develop as an engineer. - Hybrid work style (3 days in office). Personally, I like hybrid more than both fully in-office and fully remote styles. - Great cafeteria with good food and cheap prices. - Good work/life balance (outside of being on call, I can leave work at work).

Cons

- Work is not super interesting to me. I come from a highly technical, but very different (not ecommerce/industrial supplies), background where I was doing work I was much more interested in. No doubt there are folks in Systems who love the domain though. - While I'm not on call a ton (1-2 weeks every few months), I really hate being on call. I like to leave work at work. Note that joining at least one reliability team is expected within your first year or so.

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