White collar version of Amazon AKA run - Sales Associate McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
Apr 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

pay is good; they are transparent when telling you how important culture is. they clearly want people who will work themselves to death and are very good at weeding out the ones who won't quickly.

Cons

you won't make friends; you are glued to your screen every second; the emails you write are timed; you have to clock out to use the restroom so your time doesn't work against you. horrible, seriously. more than half of my cohort quit within 1 month. they randomly switch your job ie from sales to finance if they need more people.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Salary, benefits, coworkers, work/life balance

Cons

micromanagement at every level and job is boring at times

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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