Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,105 total reviews)
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Mike Motz

24% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,105 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 Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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37K reviews
1.0
Jul 11, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is not horrible but it's not the best either, I know many employees who have gone to other retailers for an extra $.50. Time off will be given if manager is noticed well enough in advance. Some regular customers can make the day a whole lot better.

Cons

The schedule is flexiable but only for those who are favorites of the store manager, if anyone else has a day they cannot work or would like off weekly will suffer due to that. You get what is called a promotion one day then knocked back down the next. Manager will not understand if the photo lab is busy and will still say that you are unproductive even if you had 100 orders to process. Some managers do not let employees see the task list and only tell employees part of what needs to be done and not all of the task, employee will get in trouble for not knowing or doing enough in the day. Managers will "gang up" on employees if employee is not in "the circle", and forget about ever being in "the circle." It has even been asked in my store, "who do you have the s---- to get anywhere around here?" Smoke breaks are given every five but non-smokers will not be left alone while on breaks. Once you get a raise better hope you like it b/c there is never another one coming. Employees are never thanked for help even when managers take all the credit.

1.0
Jul 11, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is ok for what it is. The job does not require much thought or education to do. It is the same thing everyday, so if you like that kind of work then go for it.

Cons

For the most part, they tell you that you can go from mgt to mgr in 1-2 years. But in reality, you have to brown nose and be buddy buddy with the MGR and DM to get anywhere. The customers can be a drag. If they want to fire you, they will use any excuse to do it.

1.0
Jul 9, 2009

Not very rewarding

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good health benefits. Very lucarative intial offers promises are seldom kept ofcourse.

Cons

Initial offers are very lucarative but most of the promises are seldom kept. Pay is way less compared to other industries of all kinds(similar and non-similar). No career advancement what so ever, being a best or outstanding performer contantly doesn't get anything nor take career anywhere. Managers are just dummies who do nothing but report progress of their team, they are very reluctant to help their hard-working employees get what they deserve. Never seen any company encourage good/great talent walk out of the door as WAG does. Although restructuring has promised a lot of things nothing has been improved so far. No post-hire learning oppurtunities, neither the manager knows what may be needed nor the employee. Very less communication between middle management and employees. Hardly anything is finished as promised. Worst of all things lot of name-game plays keep happening.

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