Not a bad place to start - Anonymous employee Fastenal Employee Review

2.0
May 27, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not much - you work with some pretty good people if you're lucky Pretty good training program No weekends

Cons

Ever changing (unreal) expectations, decent turnover...very much worried about stakeholders, not necessarily employees Hubs are consistently messing up orders, however the employee support line is usually pretty quick to remedy. Probably because they get so much experience

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Pros

Lots of responsibility. Decentralized company, which can work in your favor.

Cons

Pay is low based on competitors. Politics, lots of it. Cost-centers everywhere. Everyone has to make money off the branches: the hub, NA, regions, support, etc. Being a GM is probably one of the hardest jobs. Your job on the lean team is to support NA and the branch. It is hard to fully support both at the same time. It is a balancing act that frequently is blamed on you. Frequently, your coworkers just want to put their name on your work and create problems because of their egos.

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