Cardinal Health reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(4,959 total reviews)
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Jason Hollar

78% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Cardinal Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 4,959 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cardinal Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jan 21, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Paid time off is second to none. Very easy to transfer almost anywhere in the U.S. They will even pay for your moving truck. They actually encourage you to stay with the company and will help you in finding the right job that fits you. Cardinal also pays for some schooling while you work there.

Cons

Being that it is a large company, the main disadvantage, especially in a down economy, is that there are these groups of people in corporate called Kaizen team or something to that effect. This teams job is to make decisions for the company to better the efficiency, cut costs, improve on safety yada yada. I'm not sure where this team gets its credentials, but someone needs to question it. I am yet to see the benefit of these dumb decision that inconvenience work flow and seem like they were created by people who have the slightest idea in what we do in the nuclear pharmacy division. It also makes you wonder what it costs to plan a project pay for flights and hotels and hourly wages for these so called TEAMS to work their magic. Also I would like to add the incomes of corporate employees are outrageous, and the company has slid down hill ever since the day Kerry Clark set foot in here as CEO. He also single handedly killed employee moral by shutting anything extra for the employees completely off, not to mention no Christmas bonuses or incentive bonuses of any kind for non salaried employees. Also we have a constant threat of being cut every day, they kind of use this in the down turn of the economy kind of like a rancher uses a whip on cattle or horses.

2.0
Jan 20, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Your immediate peers are probably the best reason to work here. There were really great people who in spite of what senior management did kept the boat afloat.

Cons

Senior management doesn't value the employees or the knowledge that they have about running the business. Cost cutting and layoffs due to outsourcing only to find out that they lost years and years of experience is normal here. You can't always replace the skills and dedication of the people with outsourcing.

5.0
Dec 25, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cardinal Health is an excellent company who is always looking to change with the healthcare needs of the world. They are committed to Lean Six Sigma and use the process to improve what we do and how we do it. The benefits are very good and it seems Cardinal is always looking to keep the cost to it's employees at a minimum. There are so many different companies within Cardinal Health that the open jobs continue to appeal to even those employees who are happy with what they do. I think they truly care about people who work for them and definitely promote blance with family and job.

Cons

With really large companies like Cardinal Health, people sometimes get the mentality that change is almost impossible. They tend to back away from change that requires a huge commitment or a lengthy process. We continuously look at the processes in place and discover problems but find it very difficult to get the problems resolved because we are so big. Big change must come from the top and requires commitment from each and every level of management. We have in the past had way too many levels of management but that seems to be going away. Getting the right people in the right positions is also very important but that's not always the case. We sometimes see people put into positions that have no working knowledge of what they are supposed to be doing, especially at the management level in corporate positions. I'm hoping that will change though based on the new spin off of another Cardinal Health company. A few years ago Cardinal wrapped all their companies together and in my opinion caused much red tape to be added to the processes and approval methods. With this new change I am encouraged!

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