Fastenal Reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(5,781 total reviews)

Daniel Florness

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Fastenal has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,781 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fastenal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation and logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
28 Nov 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Got paid on time every month!

Cons

Toxic Senior Management, blame culture within company, no quality or truthful attitudes to work or customers, poor training, low pay, long hours, no promotional opportunity, cold warehouses, asked to deliver in dangerous conditions in vans not fit to drive, poor health and safety attitude, hiding failings of product from customers, quality and labs designed to look good but nobody wants to work in those departments, asked to achieve the impossible, boys club attitude and favouritism to a few regardless of their incompetence, bonus taken by District managers away from sales support workers, high turnover of employees.

1.0
13 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The potential is there for high commission based checks.

Cons

Long hours. No yearly pay increases on your salary. Upper management is essentially absent at the store level. Its extraordinarily hard to stay competitive the way they base commission. It's feast or famine.

3.0
5 Dec 2021

Fastenal

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Relaxed atmosphere Company has history of promoting from within.

Cons

Poor facilities for staff. Alot of false promises. Lack of transparency. No sick pay. Nepatism as friends are taken care of and even given larger bonuses.

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