Walgreens Finance Development Program reviews

The company is not growing. So, the threat of restructuring is ever on the horizon. Walgreens has not figured out how to grow revenue beyond normal inflation associated with drug prices. The substantial healthcare investments it has made, are yet to become a growth engine for the company. In the meantime, core retail and pharmacy are under more pressure to get the company through this transition. The CEO resigned last week, after a tenure of perhaps three years.

In retrospect, I heard that Walgreens is not the employer you should go for and for some reason I still accepted the position. It was HUGE mistake,, I never in 15+ years of corp finance exp had worked in more disorganized, chaotic work environment. Simple processes like forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning are made so complex that are almost impossible to bring it to finish line. Then there are people at Walgreens who simply are so light on accounting and finance knowledge that is simply frightening. They promote SFAs to Manager in 2 years or less, knowing that those individuals are basically clueless and then you have to work with individual like that, extremely difficult.