A McMaster-Carr recruiter called me out of the blue. We talked briefly about what I am looking for in a career change, she goes over McMaster-Carr, then we scheduled a phone interview for the following week. The phone interview was about 45 minutes of the recruiter asking me to go over my resume and she asked questions about my experiences. I was told right away that I passed the phone interview, and we immediately set up an in-person interview about 2 weeks out. My day started out with filling a form at the front desk with information about myself, salary expectations, my high school and college information and GPA, and my work experience including salary information. The first interview was a 2-on-1 interview with two HR folks. They asked me to tell them about myself, asked me what I think the job was, asked me what I was looking for, and then they asked me questions related to my experience. The next round was a tour of the office and warehouse with someone who was hired into General Management. The tour was very interesting, and my interviewer did a great job of explaining what the different departments of the company did. Like other reviews say, this is a walking interview. The next interview was with a director. This conversation I did not walk away feeling good about. He challenged my resume content in a way I found to be rude ("Would you really say you did ___ at company X?"), and he did not seem interested in being there. He would ask me a question, and before I would be able to finish my answer, he would interrupt me and ask me another question. He asked me 3 questions related to my experience, and 1 questions about what I would change at McMaster-Carr. The following interview was the lunch interview. It wasn't really clear to me what the purpose of this interview was, and it was very awkward. It was a 2-on-1 interview, with one person from Systems and one person from Management. One person showed up late, after the first person and I had already finished half of our lunch by the time the second person showed up. The two people did not know each other, which added to the awkwardness. The first person was pretty quiet and I felt like I had to try and make conversation, to the point where it felt like a reverse interview. With about 15 minutes left of lunch, the two individuals decided to ask me about my experiences, my interests, what I'm looking for, and what I do at my current job. The final interview was with HR again. We talked about how my day went, and went through a couple of behavioral questions. Overall, almost everyone was nice and the day went smoothly. I wasn't a fan of the interview with the director and the lunch was really awkward. It's really a fit thing, and I encourage everyone to check it out and see what they think. For me, I couldn't see myself getting excited about working there, but it doesn't seem as bad as some of the other reviews on here read. Waiting to hear back from HR.
