Fastenal reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(5,803 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 5,803 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
2.0
May 15, 2014

General Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good out of college job to gain experience, - Working your own store, not much oversight to day to day activities

Cons

Turnover, lack of direction, low pay, not great benefits, one of the biggest things is that everyday something changes, one month company will focus on one thing then the next another. You never get a general idea of where you need to head to grow your business. Lack of a full-time staff makes it hard to gain new business, because not enough time to make quality sales jobs.. No commission on sales below 20% margin even though most of those sales are national accounts that you have no say in the pricing.

1.0
May 11, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company offers a lot of promises for promotion They seem to be growing well. Hitting most of the numbers they set. Overall the industry is boring in itself but if you have solid peoples skills most customer are fun to talk with. The people I worked with where pretty fun but I was just rubbed wrong way by the whole business.

Cons

he problem with Fastenal is they're just a really boring business to work for. Independence is seems to be frowned upon. They expect you to be there for 50hrs a week when it would only take 40 to accomplish what they've asked. Clients are really just blue collar maintenance men. Everybody's so scared of corporate coming down on them, nobody wants to rock the boat. The thought they are a "debt free" company. That's because employees are compensated with very low wages with the promise of eventually being given the salary.

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