Fastenal reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(5,805 total reviews)

Daniel Florness

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Fastenal has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,805 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 Transporte y logística industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
Nov 14, 2013

Sales Support

Recommend
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Pros

Great Pay (salary + commission) Good Benefits Good Experience Growing Company

Cons

Demanding quotas Struggling economy Tough market penetration You might have to take a lot of crap from some hot-headed business owners/managers. Misleading job title and description. I was great at providing support to the sales team and could do the sales as well but since I was the sales support I had no one to turn to for help and had to instead rely on myself to do all the work creating, balancing, supporting, providing, ordering for, and managing all the accounts. You're sales, sales support, market research, accounting, procurement, VMI, and prospecting all in one but only get paid for the sales. Its worth getting into to build your resume but I wouldn't plan on sticking around.

2.0
Nov 12, 2013

Inside Sales

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Works well if your going to school

Cons

Terrible management and low pay

1.0
Nov 11, 2013

Work hard & learn a lot

Recommend
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Pros

You learn how to work hard at something & build something up from nothing. You learn how to avoid becoming bad 'people' managers like they are. It teaches you how to handle complex, stressful situations on a daily basis.

Cons

They pay poorly; don't give raises unless you are a top quartile performing salesman & then argue that you don't need a raise b/c you have performed so well you gave yourself a raise. They exploit by overworking (hrs) & understaffing. They have tremendously unrealistic expectations of, basically, everything.

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