Transparency for Employment Seeker - Senior Product Manager, Digital and Marketing Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Jan 4, 2016
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Pros

Working in digital. Ability to actually ship features and enhancements on a regular basis. Highly talented UX team, who advocates for customer-first approach. Agile methodology. Exposure to cutting edge digital technologies. Great experience for short-term tour of duty, 18 months to 4 years depending on your team and manager. Ability to acquire in-depth understanding of retail business, pharmacy and health-care industry---core industries that will be around and are green pastures because of transformations due to telemedicine, digital in health and more. Top fortune company. Well-known brand. Now a global brand with opportunities to influence work streams with global counterparts.

Cons

Leadership focus is on moving the revenue needle and driving cost savings. Very poor talent management and no clear pathway for career development, even when demonstrating performance results, thought leadership and direct/indirect leadership of teams and others. Meritocracy is an illusion.... Dramatic changes in digital leadership and management. President/CMO and her EVP responsible for eCommerce, both digital and mobile, have departed. At least 15 digital leaders at Director level and above have left the company, and key digital talent at Sr. Manager and Manager bands who actually executed work have left. Recent IT lay-offs. Expect more attrition (bonuses have paid out) and some people to be managed out. Lack of diversity in senior leadership and management-level opportunities. This is typical and not too different from most fortune companies

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5.0
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Was always able to work with my on my schedule and was always a reliable workplace little surprises

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2.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Gave me decent pay. Bought us little gifts and food at holidays.

Cons

Gave away one of my paychecks to another employee and refused to reimburse me because of issues with "their bank." My RxM created a hostile work environment showing clear favoritism for employees. Eventually, HR got involved, and I was no longer scheduled with him. I did not ask for this change, and actively resented it, because now I had fewer hours, meaning less pay on top of the $500 corporate had already stolen from me. They had no interest in training me or anyone else to become certified as promised. Over and over again, they hired people, ran out the time on their licenses, and let techs choose between paying to get certified elsewhere, or losing their jobs. The only thing Walgreens was passionate about was convincing patients that they couldn't even provide their regular medications to get vaccines. Often unneeded. The "patient care" calls are blatant and illegal marketing for vaccines, since Walgreens makes it next to impossible for a patient to opt out of it. I would NEVER get my medications here after seeing how poorly everything is managed, how unethical company policies and patient health were regarded, and how mistreated the staff were.

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