Standard corporate kingdoms and conflits - Anonymous employee McKesson Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

McKesson is a relatively stable, huge company. Being in the medical field, the company should see growth over the next years. It offers a pretty good benefits package, though the medical insurance is not as awesome as you would hope. It pays for tuition and has average or slightly above average vacation/holidays. It's generally not a cutting edge technology company. Your mileage may vary. Every department at McKesson is different, and the culture varies greatly between locations. This is very true for divisions McKesson recently acquired or reorganized. The company went through a top-leadership shakeup a year or two ago. There's a little hope that the new leadership will be better, and provide a more consistent, cross-company approach to improvement.

Cons

McKesson is largely a standard bureaucratic multi-national corporation. McKesson's software division has maybe 10% of the revenue of the medical side of the company. This meas that its easy for your tiny departments accomplishments to go unnoticed outside of your team. In general, employees are treated like at any other huge company. Performance reviews are artificial, and use the GE rating system as a way for managers to leverage power, rather than offering real mentorship. Those considering working at McKesson should really get to know the existing team, the team's turnover and the team's product line and how that product line fits into McKesson global plan. You probably would want to avoid working on a dead product line (at best, as a maintenance programmer, at worse soon to be made redundant).

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1. relatively aloof culture for ICs to grow on their own 2. on and off few people are good 3. Actually consultants in india are better than some full time hires to work with. The h1bs in full time roles and some GCs/Americans are just 1 step away from unemployment line but there are some good quality consultants who can be directed well to bring in good work. Problem is lack of direction when middle management is just running after money.

Cons

1. top most management is clueless to what is going post the middle tier 2. middle tiers - VPs/SVPs/Directors and Sr. Directors are among the worst. Mostly cast offs from Consulting firms/Tech cos/Other Healthcare firms, this group has some of the worst, clueless folks who just think very narrowly about how to get rid of problems, maybe craft a story for higher ups. Get rid of this layer ( so called people management ) and co. could shine better on the work of ICs, decent software engineers and regular rank and file. 3. Main money maker distribution is different from tech group and the IT here is almost comical - 2 years ago in 2024 there were "directors" bringing AI agents with 90% hallucination .. I mean that has got to be an industry first!

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Thank you for bringing these issues to our attention. We are committed to creating a positive work environment and are disappointed to learn that we fell short. We are taking your feedback seriously and are making efforts to address the concerns raised. Please feel free to reach out for a more in-depth discussion.
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