Everything sucks but the pay - Sales Operations McMaster-Carr Employee Review

1.0
21 May 2024
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Pros

Pay, tuition-reimbursement, insurance is good

Cons

Management is worst part of working here, they’re paid a ton of money to talk and hangout with other departments. They provide little to no value to customers. Environment is chaos, but as long as orders get out by end of day they do not care. Only talked to when there’s an issue, never get a good job or anything. Lots of good people taken advantage of because pay is good.

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4.0
16 Jun 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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