Chaotic teams with poor leadership and outdated processes - Senior Developer Cencora Employee Review

2.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Hmmmm...give me a moment; I am sure I can think of one.

Cons

Every team I have interacted with is absolutely chaotic. Team leadership is non-existent: going dark and not even answering questions for weeks at a time, cancelling team meetings 9 times out of 10, and only communicating when something hits the fan. I have identified numerous issues: technical, process, and documentation-related, and have (tried) brought them to the attention of leadership, only to be told "yeah, it is garbage, but it is the way we have always done it". I have likewise seen fellow employees let go because they weren't "measuring up". This occurred after an abrupt change in the employee's role, with zero explanation, alignment to their skill sets, training, or support behind the change. I have even offered to train some of these before they were released, and was told "No, they should be able to pick it up as they go along". The thought that anyone would "pick up" the broken, undocumented, simply mind-numbingly poor processes is in my mind just laughable. The amount of tech debt the company adds with each new project is also simply astounding to me. Redundancies in code run into the thousands and thousands of lines (I recently found a number of processes that each literally call 5 subtasks and 185 lines of code to create the same 3 folders). Yet every attempt to bring this to the attention of those in charge is met with a shrug and a grimace - "yeah, we know, it is our template but no one has time to change it". It is just crazy to me that you bake something that bad into a template in the first place, and even more so that you acknowledge it is a problem but do nothing about it.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

Compensation is lower than industry standard

1.0
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Pros

Some remote opportunities, medical benefits used to be good

Cons

This company has made it clear that its employees are not a priority. Over the past several years, there have been repeated layoffs, hiring freezes, and constant cost-cutting, with little regard for the employees left behind or how the remaining work will realistically get done. Many of the decisions don’t make sense. Critical, high-performing employees and essential roles have been eliminated while other positions remain. At the same time, new processes and layers of bureaucracy have been introduced that make even simple tasks take much longer, leaving employees with less time to focus on the work that actually serves clients. I genuinely feel for both the employees who remain and the clients, who ultimately bear the consequences of these decisions. The workload continues to increase while staffing decreases, creating an unsustainable environment. If you’re considering applying here, I’d think carefully. The company has laid off dozens of long-tenured employees—many with decades of service—without hesitation. That sends a clear message about how employee loyalty is valued. What has been especially disappointing is the lack of interest in employee feedback. In all my years here, I was never asked for ideas on how my department or the company could operate more effectively, despite those doing the work often having the best insight into what needs improvement. To make matters worse, 50-hour workweeks have become the expectation rather than the exception. It’s difficult to see continued cuts to the workforce while executive compensation remains high.

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