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Updated Apr 21, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Apr 21, 2012
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2.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took a day)
Someone found my resume online and called me for an initial interview. It was a very weird interview asking about why I chose my college and what other colleges I was accepted to. It was very unorganized and I got litte feedback on the position I was actually interviewing for. I feel like none of the questions asked were related to my skills and how they would be beneficial for whatever the position was. I assume it's the Management trainee position because "management" was mentioned after deliberate pushing. I was confused after the call but got asked back to visit the office for what I assume is the final round interview.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Apr 14, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 2 weeks)
First a brief phone screening. Next about two weeks later I received a call to set up an interview over the phone. Scheduled interview, and spent most of an hour going over each point of my resume. Next interviewer discussed the secretive or "private" nature of mcmaster. Overall I found the interview to be extremely rigid and strange.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Mar 31, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Santa Fe Springs, CA (took a day)
First round interview was very straightforward. Basic questions about my background, reasons for choosing my school, etc. I was contacted the next day for an onsite interview at the Santa Fe Springs location. It was a pretty long interview, starting with an hour and a half long tour and three 1 on 1 interviews with different levels of management. Questions about the company are highly encouraged. Very easy-going, nice, and accomplished people. Everyone at this company seems to have incredible academic and professional backgrounds.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Mar 25, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Santa Fe Springs, CA (took 3+ weeks)
Once you apply online, you can either have a phone interview with a recruiter or a 1:1 in your career office on campus. First round is very basic (several behavioral questions with one mini case question about how you would determine who to give the catalog to). If they like you from the initial interview, they fly you out to the facility to interview in person and they put you up in the Hacienda hotel- an antiquated hotel by LAX. The day of the interview, they send a driver to pick you up from the hotel and drive you to the facility. You arrive at the facility and fill out an application. It's a paper application asking basic questions like name address school (not sure why they can't just look at your resume for all of that). On that application, they ask you how much salary you desire which is atypical for a company to do. I've never seen that before. So, you should probably browse the figures posted on this site so you have a good idea of a ballpark figure to write. First, they have a past management trainee come and talk to you and ask you what you know about the company. The person claims that they're not an interviewer, but I doubt that the don't have a say in the process as well. I had a very cold person, kinda didn't excite me about the culture just by that interaction. This person takes you around and lets you shadow three different groups for 15 minutes each and tour the facility. They ask you all these questions like "Isn't our facility so clean" "Didn't this exceed your expectations"... Next you have a 1 hr. long interview with someone pretty high up. Behavioral questions once again, with a mini case. Mini case was about accepting credit cards for accounts receivables from buyers. Once again, not too difficult. If you're a quantitative and qualitative thinker, you should be able to get through it no prob. It isn't a strategy consulting firm case. Next, you have a lunch interview, where someone takes you to eat as a "friend" but this person has stalked you online and is taking notes about everything that you say at lunch. You go back to the facility, then you have a final interview with HR where they ask you nonrelated questions like "When have you ever disagreed with a professor?" Excuse me, isn't this a Management Development Program? How about you ask me about my leadership qualities and how I would plan to lead a group of people! The culture seemed weird, the interview process wasn't too hard though. The people seemed boring, and diversity was extremely limited in the office. If they like you, they'll call you back in like 2 days, if they don't like you they'll NEVER call.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Mar 14, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Atlanta, GA (took a day)
I was invited to a recruiting dinner with other students from my school and learned a lot more about the firm from the two representatives that were there. About a week later I was contacted to come in for an in-person interview. The day consisted of a tour of the distribution center (office and warehouse) and then 3 one-on-one interviews afterwards. I spoke with a few people who had worked with the firm and had a good idea of how to approach the "Super Day." On the tour I asked lots of questions and remembered the process of how an order comes into the call center and eventually goes to a customer from the warehouse. In the one-on-one interviews, I felt like a I handled the behavioral and case questions well. Two of my interviews turned into conversations, and I left the center feeling confident about getting an offer. Unfortunately, I did not, but I also couldn't really see myself being happy with the work and my co-workers. The benefits, salary, and graduate school opportunities are very attractive though, and I am sure the work would have been challenging, just not interesting.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
I sent in my resume in reply to a posting on my college's website. I was contacted immediately for an interview. The interview was with a recruiter for about 30-40 minutes. It was pretty standard where we went through every detail of my resume and she asked me to questions to get at my process for accomplishing X, Y, etc. I encourage you to remember everything you have done in past jobs--there were some things I didn't remember so be sure you do!
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Nov 15, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 3 weeks)
The interviews were pretty easy. They ask you some situational strategy questions, but other than that it is not hard.
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They werent really willing to negotiate
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Oct 22, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
Basic questions: Why McMaster-Carr?, How would you get our Yellow Book into the hands of our customers and how would you choose who to give it to?
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Jun 27, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took a day)
Wasn't terrible-- 6 oe on one interviews. All behavioral, little to no emphasis on tech.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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Management Trainee at McMaster-Carr
Posted Jun 18, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Atlanta, GA (took a day)
Began the interview process with a recruiter. Phone call consisted of going over the resume and asking me how i would decide if a business was large enough in order to recieve the infamous "Yellow Catalog".
After the phone interview, i recieved a call to interview at the Atlanta office. McMaster Carr flew me into Atlanta and set me up in the W.
On the day of the interview, a towncar picked me up and took me to the facility. McMaster Carr is esentially a distribution center. They do not manufacture anything. The grounds were well kept and the office and wharehouse was very clean and organized.
The interview was broken down into a morning and afternoon session. The morning consisted of filling out an application and then taking a tour of the facility. After the tour, i had 1:1 interviews with 2 Managers and a representative from HR. I was then taken to lunch (applebees or lonestar) with 2 managers. After lunch i had an interview with the distribution center manager and then an exit interview with HR.
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I honestly knew from the first 5 minutes of the tour that this was not the company for me. The cubes in the office were low profile. I gathered this was so the managers walking about could keep an eye on what every employee was doing. Not once throughout the day did i see anyone get up and socalize with each other. Every department i toured seemed to be the same way. The work seemed repetitive and boring. There truly is no room for growth unless your career path will consist of management trainee - associate manager - manager - and nothing after.
If your being recruited out of college this may be an opportunity to make 85K and pay off some loans. if your looking for a career change and work that is challenging with growth potential i would look somewhere else. About the only thing this company has going for them is the pay.....READ THE REVIEWS! AFTER INTERVIEWING I FIND THEM TO BE EXACTLY WHAT I EXPERIENCEd!
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