Great Benefits - Checker McMaster-Carr Employee Review

4.0
Jan 7, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and great benefits. They pay for all school as long as it's from an accredited institution. Few companies offer something like that. So if you don't like your job, just go back to school and get the education you need to get a better position. Also you get a great bonus at the end of the year, even in this one when the economy was bad.

Cons

Communication is not the easiest to come by. And because education is so easy to come by here, a higher-ed. degree doesn't mean much. Still, education for free, I'll take it.

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 16, 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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