McMaster-Carr expects a great deal of its management and gives good benefits and work opportunities in return. - Supervisor McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
Oct 25, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great compensation and benefits, excellent opportunities to manage people early on in year career. Well run company that has taught me a great deal about how to manage for efficiency and productivity. Good opportunities for advancement and rotating through various management positions to gain experience in different functional areas. Good work life balance - reasonable hours. They do not call you in to work when you are not scheduled to work. You do not have to take work home. In fact taking work home is discouraged. Lastly, almost everyone, employees and management, is pretty good at what they do. It is refreshing to work with colleagues who you can count on.

Cons

The company expects you to work very hard when you are at work and to be very good at what you do without much praise or encouragement. The culture can be somewhat rigid or restricting - when you are at work you are expected to be working. Because incompetence, or even mediocrity, is not tolerated it can feel like you are always on the verge of getting fired even if you do good work.

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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

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2.0
Mar 4, 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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