Pro: work/life Con: Pay - Account Specialist Fastenal Employee Review

2.0
Mar 20, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Work/Life balance, advancement opportunities, Fastenal School of Business training classes

Cons

They do not pay competitively. If you have a manager not willing to share good accounts, it's difficult to make a good commission. So you are essentially doing work for someone else to get paid more for. If they keep the account in their name, they make double the commission for it. The account specialists and outside sales staff rely on that commission because our hourly rates were so low. They purposefully understaffs branches so you are often expected to take care of responsibilities outside of your job description, and that you don't make commission on.

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3.0
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Pros

Lots of responsibility. Decentralized company, which can work in your favor.

Cons

Pay is low based on competitors. Politics, lots of it. Cost-centers everywhere. Everyone has to make money off the branches: the hub, NA, regions, support, etc. Being a GM is probably one of the hardest jobs. Your job on the lean team is to support NA and the branch. It is hard to fully support both at the same time. It is a balancing act that frequently is blamed on you. Frequently, your coworkers just want to put their name on your work and create problems because of their egos.

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