Fastenal Employee Reviews
Out of 331 Fastenal employee reviews, 71% were positive. The remaining 29% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Fastenal improve their work culture. The Sales team, with 53% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Fastenal compared to all other departments at the company. The Operations team offered the most constructive feedback, with 49% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
They are always focussed on growth Good stategies.
That they always have an evasive answer about giving raises
Review from Sales Dept
They prioritize low costs and high growth
good group, they hire and promote from within so most of the leads or managers know the jobs from the ground up, which helps
They trust us to do our jobs
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Understanding leadership, goals, employee morale
Review from Sales Dept
appreciating their employees. Ten years for 1 paid sick day is lunacy.
They need trained on how to be a manager. They want you to do things a certain way, but they dont have to do whatever they want you to do
Review from Operations Dept
Being transparent everything is hidden I guess they don't want you to know as much as they do.
Valuing employees and treating people with respect
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Reasonable pay, benefits could be better
The company match and company Stock options
I wasnt there lonh enough for a compensation package to effect ne.
Review from Sales Dept
Not able to say, no input.
Commission based so you get what you earn
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Getting payed a fair amount for the work i do
That people get paid what they're worth. People shouldn't get paid close to the same, and have to do half as much as work. They show favorism, and dont hold the same stanards for everyone
Review from Operations Dept
no raises in two year
Review from Sales Dept
I feel that fastenal thinks anyone and everyone is replaceable so even when great workers leave they make no changes to keep the next great employee.
Pay is not equitable, salary or bonus. Some are not paid for the hard work they put in while others are over paid and putting in little to no effort, given favorable roles, larger salaries, or better bonus calculators.
Review from Sales Dept
What are some of the best things about your team?
Working for a toxic manager has a funny way of bringing a geam together
Review from Sales Dept
Collaboration, competence , loyalty and integrity
Casual atmosphere at the branch
helpful, kind, work together for success
well generally work well together and we communicate which makes easier on are customers
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Get paid what theyre worth. Have same stanards for everyone
Review from Operations Dept
Coworkers are great people to work with.
We have no meetings and coworkers pass work off
never had a meeting in two years
Review from Sales Dept
They need to stop talking about sexual stuff and stop causing drama in the work place.
Review from Sales Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Everyone noo matter their position are willing to drop what yhey are doing to help people out at anytime
Review from Sales Dept
Good experience and decent people
I work alone and I get to listen to my music
nothing - manager never here
Review from Sales Dept
promote from within and opportunities
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
It would be better if everyone was treated the same. It would be better if the wages were fairly paid. It would be better if the commission was higher. It would be better if you did the job he was hired to do and not had to do the job for five people. It would be better if they didn't allow bullying
Transparency, performance reviews, guidance, and lower level engagement. Bad apples are allowed to stick around far too long with no accountability.
Review from Sales Dept
Change anti-harassment policy. Zero tolerance should be the standard. Stop protecting long term employees who aren't meeting expectations or no longer benefitting the company, they are holding back others. It runs off a lot of good employees.
Managment needs to step up and take action. We rely on our part timers way too much. They do not need that job, if they leave we would be done for. District manager could care less about anything but our numbers. Its annoying.
a better environment and employees that are intelligent
Review from Operations Dept
What did you like most about the interview process?
It was pretty standard interview
It was very straightforward and to the point. The definitely communicate very quickly
We keep it light and simple to allow people to be comfortable talking to us.
Very easy and somewhat fast
How personable everyone was and transparent
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
the process is getting to long
Review from Sales Dept
Well stop hiring women based off of their looks alone. Seriously my fastenal manager hired a stripper who dressed very unprofessional at work. This caused tremendous drama in the work place.
Review from Sales Dept
I never had an interview with this company. They bought out the company I worked for. Things have gone downhill from there.
Review from Operations Dept
What makes you most happy at work?
Authority and work life balance
The completion of projects and recognition for doing quality work.
I always have work to do
Feeling extremely comfortable to go in and talk to the employees
Review from Sales Dept
Going home at the end of the day
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
the place good for quick part time job
Review from Sales Dept
They need to stop hiring uneducated perverts, and promoting them to manager positions.
Review from Sales Dept
Lower prices, actually price items on the shelves since it makes it twice as much work for employees to run to a POS and have to scan in every item for a price.
Some employees slack on purpose and others are forced to pick up their slack.
There is no trust in co-workers. Also, the company policy to recruit friends tends to alienate real life relationships, further straining day to day activities. Recruitment from outside referrals would go far to help..
Review from Sales Dept
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