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      Fastenal

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      Fastenal reviews

      3.5

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (5,787 total reviews)

      Daniel Florness

      78% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      Fastenal has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,787 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
      1.0
      Aug 21, 2010

      Ok place to gain experience, but not to build a career

      General manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - easy place to get foot in the door - can move up through the district quickly due to frequent turnover

      Cons

      - ever increasing expectations with ever decreasing support - always having to train new employess due to frequent turnover - always having to go back and clean up relationships with customers from past employees

      1.0
      Aug 16, 2010

      Choose another job

      Outside sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Resume builder....is the Only positive! Everyone at Fastenal is expendable. Everyone. As long as the upper management is getting their piece of the pie, they could care less about what type of money their shareholders could be making if they looked in to keeping their employees longer than 6 months. Four months after starting this job, 4 out of 5 people within the company you meet will hate their job. Everyone who works for Fastenal is always "looking".

      Cons

      Cheap, frugile, cheap, cheap, cheap, greedy, cheap, cheap, cheap, turnover rate throught the roof

      2.0
      Aug 12, 2010

      Get your experience and get out.

      Sales support
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Better than an office environment. Work with blue collar customers. Get to get on the road. Good networking opportunities with all the businesses you work with. It does look good as experience to future employers due to all the responsibilities taken at such a high demanding career.

      Cons

      Confusing commission structure - constantly changing in order to keep salaries predictably low. Very cheap company, CEO has been voted the cheapest CEO in america. To get above the general manager position requires lots of politics. No air conditioning in the summer, no heat in the winter. Constant micromanaging. Unfair profit margins, the markups presented to us do not reflect the actual markup. As good of a salesman you can be, competitors flat out get the products to the customers cheaper. Often times customers will only come in as a last resort - causing morale to be low. You have to do inventory on thousands of products on a constant basis amongst juggling the actual task of sales.

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