Fastenal Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Fastenal full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – great sales experience, good corporate structure, good benefits

Fastenal is a very smart company. Fastenal knows exactly what they need to accomplish to secure that their stock will be successful.

Cons – limited advancement opportunities, micro-managed, compensation dependent, extremely performance based, low end of salary range

Advice to Senior Management – Consolidate branches and incorporate a single territory manager who would be responsible for growing new and existing customer. Web-only sale of products.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Fastenal part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great opportunity for career advancement, flexible with school schedule, in case you relocate or wish to travel they are an MNC and are very helpul in finding you work elsewhere.

Cons – Very agressive growth demands (not sustainable future) pay structure for OSP positions could be improved. Lean staffing = overworked and can lead to burning out

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in human capital, take the time to aquedatly train both sales support, and OSP positions. The resources are their, but not the time... Most but not all stores are run too lean, and when one person leaves it's a get "another body in there" approach, rather than having adequate coverage and time to get the next employee up to speed about their customers and market in which they serve.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Fastenal part-time for more than a year

Pros – Good working environment, work with school schedule, and pay for someone in college is great. Not bad pay if you are a manager of a store or district manager. Great sales and logistics experience.

Cons – High turnover, low pay if you are an OSP, and not really any room for growth in the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fastenal part-time for less than a year

Pros – Good job to have in college. Gave me a broad understanding of distribution. Gained experience in receiving, sourcing, quoting prices, placing orders, delivering products, customer service, and retail. No doubt that this led to my first internship in supply chain.

Cons – 7am starts are not fun while in college. Other than that, it really depends on your general manager, and there is a high turnover rate. I worked for three GMs in one year... some I liked working for... some I didn't.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Fastenal part-time for more than a year

Pros – My boss was super flexible
Hours were great
I was never bored

Cons – Working out in the factories in the texas heat wasnt ideal but i wasnt too bad
At my branch there were no opportunities for advancement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fastenal part-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexible Hours with college classes

Cons – Tough market to sell in.

Advice to Senior Management – Lower Prices

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fastenal part-time for less than a year

Pros – Great for college students and learning about sales in a growing industry of a normal nuts and bolts company throughout the world and nationwide

Cons – Need better compensation for the work that gets done around the warehouse. Its a good entry level job but not for the long term

Advice to Senior Management – Hope to get bigger raises

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Fastenal part-time for more than a year

Pros – Fastenal is interested in developing a strong sales force.
When you obtain to a position of outside sales you have a lot of autonomy to develop relationships with customers. The company is interested in an employees career development.

Cons – Give employees a more formal training program.

Advice to Senior Management – Regional Managers should work more closely with the General store managers to develop a sales team rather than just worrying about the numbers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fastenal part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Network Opportunities
They supply a vehicle

Cons – Pay
sales
Hard industry when economy is down

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Fastenal part-time for less than a year

Pros – Great sales training and co-workers. Helpful learning experience and insight to B2B sales.

Cons – Part time does not work many hours

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company