Walgreens reviews

3.0

34% would recommend to a friend

(37,027 total reviews)
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26% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,027 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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2.0
Jul 7, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

If you are looking for an in-between job, it's a pretty good one. You can cut your management teeth here with ease.

Cons

Lack of employees. No real opportunity to hone leadership skills as you are the one doing all the work. Training is nearly non-exsistant. Promotions are NOT based on eperience, but rather who is "IN" with the DM. Management staff is not given regular feedback on performance.

3.0
Jul 7, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best reasons are the pay and benefits. Also, being a national company with many locations, I can move and still stay with the company. Walgreens is also technologically advanced with a great computer system that links all its stores so it is easier to know the history of and to serve a customer that does not always visit the same store.

Cons

It can get very busy and some of the customers are not worth dealing with. There are always plenty of problems ranging from insurance issues to customer complaints which leaves little time to provide for proper patient care (i.e. patient counseling).

2.0
Jun 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I've only worked in the pharmacy for 6 months, however I have been with Walgreen for 2 years so far. But one of the good things are flexible hours. It's a clean job, ok pay for a college job. Nothing more. It also depends who you work with. The pharmacists usually tend to be pretty decent people. But sometimes if you get stuck with an @55hole you just want to shoot him/her and then yourself. Walgreens offers a discount to its employees. This discount isn't that great, because you can go out to Walmart, Target...anywhere and still pay less without the discount.

Cons

Working at Walgreen has been a good experience, however it has it's downsides to it. You will have to deal with unsatisfied people 24/7. A never ending line of people in drive through with insurance problems and such. This job makes you hate people that come into Walgreen period. Technicians work through so many problems with a million people daily and our pay isn't satisfactory. There is a lady that is a senior tech, and she's been there for about 15 years and after a while, you do not get any more raises even though inflation occurs and prices are going up. I think you can get paid up to $16/hr. Working here is like a sweatshop.

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