Fastenal reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(5,784 total reviews)

Daniel Florness

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Fastenal has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,784 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
4.0
Oct 16, 2009

Fastenal the way it is.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You work with management to achieve goals together, individual stores are run like small businesses. They will train you and help you get to be a better sales person. It can be rather rewarding to move into a store manager position.

Cons

Depending on location, pay varies greatly and newer pay program is based mostly off sales growth over prior year, harder to do in these times.

1.0
Oct 9, 2009
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Pros

Benefits and the fact that you only have to deal with middle management maybe once a month. Everything else about this company is a joke!

Cons

Firstly, expect zero respect about your work ethic or intelligence from middle management. Trust me when I say there is no good enough. The pay structure is designed for you to never increase income. If you are on of the few lucky ones who begins getting high commissions, they milk you dry, fire you, then find someone to do your job for half the pay. The continually promise you things then renig on the offer and deny every proposing it in the first place. You will be expected to drive to other stores further way if they decide that's where they want you. Of course they will tell you that you will receive gas reimbursment, but you will not. As for the job itself, upper management expects unrealistic results, and does not help at all. In fact im not sure what the majority of management even does. The warehouse support is completely unreliable, which makes branch employees time and time again look like idiots. Still, in all those instances we are blamed. They even have an anual super sale where we have a goal to hit, and half the products on there we cannot stock at the store! And a quarter of those aren't stocked at our distribution centers, and they are made over seas so we have no option to bring them in. Honestly, what kind of legitiment business puts out a super sales promotion and come of the items aren't even obtainable!? I really do not understand how in the world this company became as big as they did. Either things were different years ago, or the excessive penny pinching pays off!

1.0
Oct 4, 2009
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Pros

It was a good place/pay for a part time job, but the don't want part time, they want outside sales...

Cons

I was hired as a part time driver (per the add I responded to), but what they where really hiring for is outside sales. If they would have told me that I never would have turned my resume... The dress code for working in a 110 degree warehouse was dress shoes, pants, and shirt. The funniest part is when I ruined my shoes and pants working in the warehouse I didn't even make enough money to replace them... The end result was I was fired for turning down the "promotion" to outside sales. I told them when I was hired that I was in school and I couldn't make over 20k a year or I'd lose my grants. I think they thought they where going to talk me out of going to school for a career with them... The companies a joke...

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