Views from a Corporate Employee - Senior Analyst Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Feb 5, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Corporate life at Walgreens is great if you're the type of person who wants to settle down. This is a place that celebrates pinnings for annual work anniversaries and it's not uncommon that you'll see 10, 15, and 20+ year pinnings here. Work isn't stressful and you can get by without giving it your 110%. You'll get into a routine and achieve complacency very easily. If you're looking for a place where you can coast, this is it.

Cons

Walgreens is a mature company. This isn't a place where you're going to be on the leading-edge of anything. Business is conducted top-down. There have been some initial talks of making this place more innovative and adopting a more agile-like process. However, this is going to take a lot of work and buy-in from executives. At this point in time, I feel it's more conceptual rather than definitively saying it's the direction they are headed in. If you strive in a fast-pace environment like I do , you'll miss that here. This isn't a place where you'll constantly be learning or have an opportunity to push ideas. The Deerfield office is soul-sucking but the Digital ecommerce Chicago office is a little more lively and laid-back.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Work with your schedule if you are in school.

Cons

Low pay. I need to be able to multitask, run the cash register, and operate the Photo Booth lab at a fast pace.

3.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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