100% Tuition Reimbursement - Anonymous employee McMaster-Carr Employee Review

3.0
19 Jan 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

100% Tuition Reimbursement, very good medical benefits, fair pay, you don't take your work home with you. They helped me with the down payment on my house as well as gave me a monetary gift when I got married. The culture of the company is that they do care about taking care of employees and if you do your job and don't screw around it is a fine to place to work. I think some departments are better than I others my department was small and not run by an "MD" so it is a good place to work.

Cons

"MD" stands for management development. Management development hires are young people hired right out of select colleges around the country at really high starting salaries for the purposes of becoming the company's management. In my time here I'm aware of a only 1 or 2 people who weren't hired as an MD being promoted into a supervisor position. Obviously everybody is different and I was never directly managed by an MD but I didn't like how this worked and I was not impressed by the most of MDs that I dealt with. They are smart and motivated people but what caliber of person goes to an Ivy league school and then takes a job at McMaster-Carr? Don't you want to do something more with your degree? I've earned a masters degree while at the company and have received positive reviews every year I've worked here and have not even heard mention of a promotion. I found this to be really demotivating.

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Cons

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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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