Express Scripts benefits

Maternity Leave is not the best.

Health Insurance, Tuiton reimbursement, employee discounts

Best thing: lots of internal opportunities exist within the organization for professional development and advancement. Worst thing: there's a lot of "not-my-fault" mentality throughout.

Great coverage for a great price!

The overall benefits package fits in with the culture, philosophy, and DNA f the organization: provide as little as possible at the lowest cost to members, clients and employees in order to maximize net profit (this is an observation/opinion and not necessarily an indictment as I am both an employee and a shareholder). Medical/dental/optometry are provided. The only options for medical are two Consumer Driven plans that are obviously designed to push you to other options (such as that provided by your partner) unless you have no other options. The premium for the less expensive option (Wichita is almost akin to having no coverage) is almost 1.5 times more than that for the PPO plan offered by my spouse's employer (incidentally a company that recently emerged from bankruptcy). The amount of PTO provided is relatively similar to most large organizations though it must be accrued rather than being deposited to your account at the beginning of the year and there is a rather low cap. The 401k offering is adequate and there are enough participants that contributions of "highly compensated" employees are not restricted. There are a fairly broad range of investment choices, however a self directed option is not available. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is offered however as only a 5% discount is provided it's hardly worth participating. Not a huge incentive for promoting employee ownership and an example of the mentality of providing the least amount possible. Stock options/grants are technically available to many employees, however a performance rating system which includes forced ranking is in place. With such a system, all groups are required to rank team members proportionately across a bell curve. As a result, even if you surpass all of the expectations of your position as listed in the job description, it is very possible that you could end up with a threshold/low ranking and not be awarded any options, grants, or merit raise (not an uncommon occurrence, especially in professional positions where just about everyone is high performing). Despite the overwhelmingly negative view of the system throughout the company (even some HR folks if you believe rumors), George Paz (current Chairman and CEO) has openly stated to employees in a Town Hall Meeting that the system of forced ranking will NEVER change as long as he is in charge. Way to be in touch with the building blocks of your organization. A package of employee discounts and perks is offered however most are geared toward the St. Louis area and therefore of little value to a large percentage of the 30,000 employees. The bottom line as an employee: completely underwhelming. The devil is in the details and, as they say, "You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig".

Did not cover a dental procedure. But overall, I am happy with the benefits offered at Express Scripts.

paid training, paid time off, 401k, health insurance, life insurance, stock options

The cost for health insurance is based upon your salary.

Company did away with the affordable HMO plan and offered expensive 80/20 plan in it's place. Our site belonged to the United Steelworkers Union and was able to have their better plan.

They offered a wide array of discounts from mobile carriers, to travel, even a point system with rewards that you could spend on a catalog. The benefits covered my family as needed, the only problem there being that if your spouse has access to other insurance, you get charged extra for it.