Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,096 total reviews)
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24% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,096 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Walgreens employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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37K reviews
3.0
Sep 18, 2010
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Pros

Walgreens gives recent college graduate the opportunity to become assistant manager without having prior experience, and also offer a summer internship assistant manager program. In addition one you become an assistant manager you can apply to become promoted to executive assistant manager.

Cons

The downsides at working at Walgreens as an assistant manager is that the store manager and the executive assistant delegate most of the responsibility to the assistant manager. As an assistant manager I had to close the store most of the time. The store manager would not hire enough employees in order to safe money for his annual bonus. I would be short-staffed most of the time. Every night I would was only given two employees and some times only one employ. I was expected to run a store that was three times as big as a regular Walgreen's store with only two people, and I was expected to clean and pick up the store as if a had a full staff. Every night was challenge, I did not know what to expect. I would have customers complain all the time about the lack of service. I did the best I could to help every custormer, however, it was a challenge to provide good customer service without employees. Working at walgreens was a nightmare because as an Assistant manager I had to my job as an assistant manager, the work of the photo cleck since we would not have anyone in the camera department and the manager did not bother to train anyone in camera, I also had to do the work of the cosmetic clerk because the clerk have a not clue about how run the department, and at times I was also asked by the phamacist to help him ring in pharmacy. Although the pay was decent, I did not considered it enough for all the work that is involved in the position. Therefore, I resigned from my position as an assistant manager , because I did not see myself doing that job forever, the job was wearing me off. I did not spend four years obtaining a college degree to clean bathrooms and toilets. I respect the people that do, because there are many people that need the money and the did not go to college. However, that was not my case. If you are considering working at Walgreens as an Assistant manager you have to be prepared to multi-task, and do the jobs of other employees if you are short handed, even cleaning toilets.

2.0
Sep 17, 2010
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Pros

There are opportunities to be involved from the ground up in one of the most visited websites in the world (400th). Walg has instant name recognition natoinally, if not internationally.

Cons

Business stakeholders are privileged, old guard and are not in touch with usability. "Agile," as elsewhere, does not mean scalable, it means bare-knuckled hurry up and get it out there - or else. There is consequently no deep understanding of process, because you have to care deeply about your web product to develop a process that truly (and not just in name) enables quality workmanship. The business analysis component is in disarray. This follows, since this function, at core, is ideally an arm of business strategy. Those close to the stakeholder side of the house will find stakeholders largely undisciplined ideators who don't understand the process of evaluating and implementing an idea - and then evaluating the implemented idea. They are driven by arbitrary timelines that, if accomplished, mean bonuses. The timelines have no relationship to the real time it takes to deliver a quality product. There is no UAT. Usabliity testing is in its infancy, although the shop has state-of-the-art equipment to accomplish this.

3.0
Sep 17, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

I have never had an issue with getting time off, trading with other associates. The job is pretty straight forward, everything I've come to expect from the retail environment.

Cons

Again, nothing out of the blue with the work politics, cliques within the store, although if you don't join the clique, your ability to move up or even learn new things are greatly hendered.

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