Walgreens reviews

3.0

34% would recommend to a friend

(37,055 total reviews)
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Mike Motz

24% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,055 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
Feb 22, 2024
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Pros

Fair base pay, extremely smart/passionate/capable working teams, solid work/life balance.

Cons

Current leadership has lost the plot. People are leaving en masse and morale is at an all-time low: - 3 rounds of major layoffs since May: zero job security - Last year saw 0% bonuses/raises despite increased expectations - Employees are blamed for sub-par performance, despite the real cause: leadership's lack of direction/strategy and poor financial decisions - Layoffs resulted in new, non-sensical team organizations and majorly effected IT and road-mapping that we need to compete in the marketplace - New team leaders appointed as "yes" people - lack of functional knowledge leaves working teams with no support from above - Culture is shifting to "do as your told" model- strategic thinking is viewed as a challenge to leadership - Leadership unable to prioritize effectively-- efforts/resources aren't focused where they will drive the most business impact - Only notable move from new CEO is 3-day forced return to office mandate to "improve collaboration" (backed by zero data, just desperate deflect the board from real problems)

1.0
Jul 31, 2023
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Pros

The management as in district and store, and of course, assistant, or emerging all great in my area not sure about other ones.

Cons

The training is not thorough enough, corporate doesn’t care about its employees. They do not give warnings even though it’s not the employees fault for lack of training. They will send asset protection who in this area is a male and lock you in a room with him and he forcefully interrogate you till you cry. Even though you don’t understand what’s going on. It was almost like a police interrogation room. Female alone, and possibly even a male would feel very violated and cornered. They also only allow certain hours they leave the store understaffed because this. And that leads to poor training and lack of it. Because you don’t have time to sit and pay attention to the training exercises. They also do not investigate real claims of misconduct as in drunken pharmacy, techs filling prescriptions, as handling money as well. They let verbally abusive employees to stay in the company. They have Favorites, and they do not truthfully prevent retaliation for reporting something to HR. Their stores mostly are dirty, and they do not make efforts to clean them because they don’t have time. They don’t check to make sure that they are in compliance with food handling as well. Overall just lack of training. The corporate putting deadlines on upper management and lack of hours allowed , which causes under staffing , and will create stress and miscommunication, which is forcing good employees out of the company. Even if the employees wants to leave or not.

4.0
Sep 28, 2021

Good people. Overworked.

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Pros

Most coworkers are honest. They also work hard and seem to care about standards that Walgreens policies tell us to follow. Store manager is very detail oriented. Management is open to giving you honest feedback.

Cons

My hours are totally random. I have no idea when I will be working 2 weeks from now. We're very understaffed. We're borrowing managers and cashiers from other stores because we can't find people to work for us. It reflects that we are underpaid.

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