Walgreens reviews

3.0

34% would recommend to a friend

(37,036 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 37,036 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
Apr 9, 2014
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Pros

The atmosphere is really friendly, and the customers are wonderful. There is always a ton of stuff to work on, no matter what department you're in. The days go by really quickly.

Cons

They schedule people based on store sales. If your store happens to have a slow week, hours a cut way back that results in tasks not getting done and customer service starts lacking. When Obamacare changed our insurance at the end of last year the cost nearly doubled. I was willing to work solely to pay for the insurance, but two weeks before Christmas three full time employees were fired for the blanet term "integrity issues". We had all been with the company for years. We had all recently been employees of the month, and I was on my way to being promoted to shift lead. We all felt betrayed, stabbed in the back. Walgreens treats their full timers terribly.

3.0
Feb 6, 2014

a lot of work with little pay

Anonymous employee
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Pros

health insurance (for full time employes) profit sharing that you have to put money into and can't take any out till you have worked at walgreens for 6 years

Cons

If you get a bad store manager you will be doing a lot of extra work with out extra pay.

3.0
Dec 30, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The patients. If one is working in a pharmacy, you want to have contact with patients.

Cons

The patients are also the worst part of the job. Demanding, entitled individuals are the worst. Pharmacist hours are stretched to the max, rarely have overlapping covereage, and are expected to do 15 things simultaneously at any given moment, all the while being expected to be perfect in doing those things. I would say that the upper management of the company (not any one store) is the worst. They don't practice daily, they don't realize how difficult the job really is. Many members of upper management started out at the bottom and worked their way up. I've heard them say that they could never go back to be a pharmacist at this point - because the retail pharmacist is expected to do so much more today than they were yesterday, and they wouldn't stay afloat. If that doesn't say something, what does?

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