Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,124 total reviews)
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23% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,124 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 Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Nov 9, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

A decent job after college if you're not sure what you really want to do. It's rather monotonous work, and not too challenging. If you actually put forth a good effort, there is a good chance you'll move up.

Cons

Pretty inflexible scheduling. Dealing with ridiculous customers, but that's not unique to Walgreen's. They don't really adjust the pay if you are living in an area with a higher cost of living.

4.0
Nov 8, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Job security, good profit sharing benefits, most managers are very good about giving you any time off requests, the work is fairly easy

Cons

Pay isn't that great unless you can make it to management, it doesn't seem that they want to promote competent and hard workers into management but have no problem giving the job to new hires even if they have no previous retail experience, although the work is easy you always end up being expected to do much more than they pay you for, you are criticized if you work "too slowly", no matter how hard you work or how well you do it, it seems that some managers like speed more than they like a job well done

3.0
Nov 6, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The pay and benefits are the best in the drugstore industry. Opportunities for Management Trainees to move up to EXA are very plentiful. Once you become store manager you get a 8-5 m-f schedule and most weekends and holidays off. Work hours for salaried employees maybe long and stressful but bonus potential makes it all worth it. There is usually plenty of coverage for all store departments but the downside is many of the employees are not very reliable or capable of doing simple tasks. Many holidays are payed in addition to your regular salary even if you are a EXA.

Cons

Promotion to store manager from EXA requires a lot of patience and politics. Due to the lawsuit filed by minorities against Walgreens for discrimination against store managers and pharamcists, promotion is very hard to come by for certain races... Work hours are long and stressful and a lot of times you fill like the Store Manager and District Manager think you are a dog and that you can be enticed(motivated) by the possibility of a promotion. They have you thinking that promotion is right around the corner to keep you working like "super walgreens employee". It's the Walgreen Way.

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