Toxic Work Environment - Anonymous employee McKesson Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Modern facility and strong brand.

Cons

Extensive changes in the last year have caused instability, confusion and low morale. New management exhibits very poor leadership and provides little, if any, direction to subordinates, but have very high expectations and micro-manage to drive results. If you question their decisions or show concern, you will be skapegoated or blamed for the problem(s) and suddenly told you have poor performance and/or put on a PIP, then turn to bullying you to get you to leave or simply let you go. This is happening to very bright, hard-working, productive and caring individuals. It has been tragic to see this. HR will do nothing. If upper management finds out you have contacted HR, they will reprimand you. A few people do all the work, while others take the credit. No work/life balance. Very silo’d organization with duplication of roles and data (data is a mess with disparate systems across the enterprise), with no documented processes and procedures to navigate or understand who does what and how to get what you need. Spend a lot of time talking and in meetings, but little “doing”. Medical insurance cost very high.

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1. relatively aloof culture for ICs to grow on their own 2. on and off few people are good 3. Actually consultants in india are better than some full time hires to work with. The h1bs in full time roles and some GCs/Americans are just 1 step away from unemployment line but there are some good quality consultants who can be directed well to bring in good work. Problem is lack of direction when middle management is just running after money.

Cons

1. top most management is clueless to what is going post the middle tier 2. middle tiers - VPs/SVPs/Directors and Sr. Directors are among the worst. Mostly cast offs from Consulting firms/Tech cos/Other Healthcare firms, this group has some of the worst, clueless folks who just think very narrowly about how to get rid of problems, maybe craft a story for higher ups. Get rid of this layer ( so called people management ) and co. could shine better on the work of ICs, decent software engineers and regular rank and file. 3. Main money maker distribution is different from tech group and the IT here is almost comical - 2 years ago in 2024 there were "directors" bringing AI agents with 90% hallucination .. I mean that has got to be an industry first!

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McKesson Response
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Thank you for bringing these issues to our attention. We are committed to creating a positive work environment and are disappointed to learn that we fell short. We are taking your feedback seriously and are making efforts to address the concerns raised. Please feel free to reach out for a more in-depth discussion.
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