PharMerica reviews

2.5

31% would recommend to a friend

(702 total reviews)
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Jon Rousseau

22% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

PharMerica has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 702 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The PharMerica employee rating is 29% below average for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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702 reviews
3.0
Jul 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Culture is improving Somewhat okay compensation benefits package Some managers care about work/life balance Opportunity for somewhat flexible work schedules Recent internal push for better collaboration between teams People are generally friendly I enjoyed working here for the most part, it worked out okay for me but not everyone was as fortunate.

Cons

Major issues with middle management, lack of cooperation, grudges, personality conflicts, disrespect and resistance to change. Inability to retain skilled workers long term, with very high turnover almost everywhere. Generally low salaries for FTEs Managers and Directors filter information and distort facts that get presented to upper management. Major immaturity issues overall among many department's staff including managers and directors. Huge dependence on contractors. Lack of follow-through overall leading to many projects never reaching 100% completion. Ironic that a Pharma company is a smoker's paradise. Lots of unhealthy behavior among staff, seems like almost everyone is smoking, vaping, an alcoholic or using some type of pills. Significant lack of organization and communication. On-boarding is a mess, new hires are lucky to be able to do their jobs when they show up. Some managers/directors lead with fear and intimidation. Staff equipment is years behind, old computers and laptops, outdated software including Office/Windows 7, very difficult to get anything nice, making productivity very difficult. Dependence on cheap or free solutions which lack proper support for enterprise environments. Business leadership seems to care only for shareholder interests, not keeping the customer and actual human lives as the focus for what we do. Egos are thrown around in meetings. Too many "movers and shakers" and not enough stable ground troops to get the work done. Too many people with ADD hindering ability of staff to have in-depth and productive meetings and conversations. Primary growth is through acquisition, often small facilities that are a complete mess adding more challenges and difficulties to existing issues. Business drivers often don't know what they want making directives vague and hard to fulfill.

1.0
Dec 14, 2014

Watch Your Step - Revolving Door

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Located in Louisville's east end the office is away from the bridge traffic. There were many very good mid-level managers.

Cons

Most of the good managers or employees I worked with or hired have left the company for a better work life balance and a less caustic leadership style. The constant use of profanity including the F word and yelling or screaming during meetings and conference calls became overwhelming.

1.0
Jul 31, 2014

There is high turnover for a reason

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you're in with the right people, you're more likely to have more flexibility with your schedule. It really depends on which department you wind up in. Some are great. Others are not. Nice coworkers. People are usually more than happy to help you if you just ask.

Cons

Some or all of the problems that some departments have: No room for advancement. You apply for a promotion thinking, "I've got this. I have a lot more experience, my numbers are much higher, and I'm liked by my co-workers as much if not more than the other candidates." But wait, you forgot to account for the fact that your boss is friends with one or more of the other candidates, which means they will get the job over you. They are strict about their rules, but there are people who somehow break these rules constantly without repercussions. For example, you are allowed 10 occurrences (for arriving late, leaving early, calling in sick) before you are fired (with warnings at certain intervals). There are people who call in sick for one to two days at a time every other week... for over a year. They surpassed their allotted occurrences a long time ago. There are other people who got multiple occurrences for planned absences or for time that was actually corrected and shouldn't have counted as an occurrence. It's very easy for them to say that you have so many occurrences right now but then give you a higher number a week later even though you hadn't done anything worth receiving an occurrence. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS email your supervisor about any possible occurrences or corrections and SAVE those emails. If you're not a favored employee, there tend to be a lot of "mistake" discrepancies. Expect to train people who get paid more than you. Once they hire you on for a certain amount, it won't change outside of the annual 2% raise. They will raise the pay for new employees as time progresses. For example, if you started 5 years ago at $10 hr, you will be getting maybe $11 even though they are now hiring new employees for $15/hr. Your pay is not based on your loyalty or work performance. Work performance is not appreciated. Whether your supervisor likes you or not has nothing to do with your work performance. There are quite a few people who are slow, inaccurate, and don't put in any effort to do their job and yet they get the same treatment (if not better, depending on how much management likes them) as those who have an excellent work performance. At times, the former group of people will get a promotion over the latter. This has happened multiple times. If you are one of the hard workers, you'll notice that some of the work done by those who were promoted ends up being sent back because it is incorrect, and you will have to fix their mistakes. You might even possibly have to spend time training them because they don't know how to do the work, or they don't know how to do it correctly. If you're good, expect to be asked to take on projects outside of your pay grade. They will ask you to take on more responsibilities without any intention of promoting you when you apply. It's just a way to get lazy people into higher positions without making them do the work or because they can't do it correctly.

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