Fastenal Employee Reviews in Calgary, AB

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Ok Campany

Outside Sales Representative (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 14 January 2017

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Great company if you are located in USA, not a great company for competition based in Canada. Don't be fooled by the commision compensation. Unless you live in a remote area where you are the only company, you will never be able to sell products at a 50-60% margin and be competative. If you can't sell at the crazy high margins than you won't earn commision. If you don't make sales you will lose your job, so your base pay is really all you will earn, and you have to make sales at lower margins to make Fastenal money, but you wont earn any commision.

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Driver/Delivery, AR (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 28 October 2019

it started out great, hired by caucasian, hours, were good, then there was a management change (not caucasian) and everything changed! surprise surprise

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Decent for experience, nothing more

Outside Sales Representative (Current Employee) - Calgary, AB - 14 July 2018

Not a great company to work for if you are in Canada, especially in a big city like Calgary. Trucking routes are big in the states which lead to long lead times for us in Canada. It is also very difficult to be competitive with pricing. They preach all the potential earnings you could make in your commission check. However, it is near impossible to do this because you need a high margin and new business to do so. Instead you will most likely be faced with getting your commission check cut in half due to low margins to win business and make the company money. - I know, it doesn't make sense. Two weeks vacation, which is lower than average. Can't take it all together either or your customers will suffer. No coffee breaks, very low base salary, very high chance a low commission check, mediocre benefits.

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Good people and management. You also get a pay check.

Cons

No coffee breaks, sometimes working through lunch, unpaid overtime since the company is too cheap to pay overtime hours, very low base salary with almost near impossible to have high commission checks, high turnover rates, very low vacation times, mediocre benefits

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