mediocre - Senior Software Engineer Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Mar 5, 2021
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Pros

laidback and flexible schedule is all i can think of

Cons

mediocrity across all departments from FTEs to Vendors. Annoying and mediocre design teams that take forever impacting engineering timelines and subsequently, mediocre engineering efforts marked by red tape. There are some few rare smart and highly competent resources but they are outliers. If you want to just chill, get in here in a management role. Note that this is a vendor heavy place and they do most of the development work. Vendors undercut ridiculously and the c-suite fall for it and this impacts downstream processes and quality of work. C-Suite suck and the good ones left and the place is becoming top heavy. Not to mention they are stingy. No bonuses (which were paltry anyways) in the last few years.

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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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