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Express Scripts

Acquired by The Cigna Group

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Express Scripts reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(3,491 total reviews)
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Tim Wentworth

58% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Express Scripts has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,491 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Express Scripts employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Sep 24, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, plenty of PTO, good bonus when you get it. Decent, caring co-workers. Great resume builder for future ex-express scripts careers.

Cons

Forced ranking (calibration) is the worst. Managers have to rank employees 20% Stretch (full bonus, merit increase), 70% Target (smaller bonus, smaller merit), and MUST put 10% at threshold (no bonus, no raise). Even if you're have all excellent performers. You manager must debate your worth against others in your salary level, with other managers who know nothing about you but have a say in your ranking. They dredge up things from years ago to "prove" a person is not worthy. Because of constant mgmt changes, little historical knowledge is retained so these stories get inflated. Lord of the Flies esque. Long hours, little "thanks" from management. Sr managers don't have a clue how the department works. Lots of busy work.

2.0
Sep 24, 2015

Your mileage may vary (this one is a real review)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's a big company with very complex business, so you can learn a lot about the industry if you are willing to put in the effort. While many people are indeed unhappy, if you find yourself in the right business units, like sales, marketing, clinical (non-call center rph positions), there are people who are fairly content. The company is also making some effort to address employee dissatisfaction in meaningful ways, but it is still in its infancy and nothing has come to fruition yet.

Cons

Even though the merger was many years ago, integration is still in an unresolved state. I suspect this will not get resolved for another 7-10 years. Cultural clashes aside, the problems at hand are difficult to solve due to complexity of healthcare and PBM business in general. And every day, things get more complex as the industry invents more products to shift around cost burden, resulting in further patchwork solutions. Unfortunately, there is no one in the company that has understanding of the entire breadth and depth of the problems at hand. Many smart people have already left the company due to stress, poor pay, unjust demotions / promotions, performance management, loss of confidence in leadership. Staggering number of talented people simply walked away on their own in recent year. The unresolved integration issue puts tremendous amount of burden on almost all employees including service reps, account management, sales rep, project managers, developers, product owners, alike.

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Express Scripts Response
10y
Thank you for your in-depth review. Your observations are critical to help simplify the issues and complexities you point out in both our company and our industry. We are glad you recognize and appreciate the visible efforts our company is making to improve employee satisfaction (which is a top priority). While our industry will always be fast-paced and complex, our goals remain the same: provide better, safer and more affordable solutions for getting prescriptions to patients, with a critical emphasis on the care of those patients and the employees who look after them.
1.0
Mar 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, Medco employees are wonderful.

Cons

I worked for Medco for 11 years then ESI for 3. ESI has an awful environment, no communications between csr's, supervisors, floor manager and managers. Fast pace that does not let up. ESI ask you to do more and more each day but never trains you and expects perfection when we live in an imperfect world. No forgiveness for small errors just punishment. Work your butt off, get a 'stretch' on evaluation but no raise given. Work hours are inconsistent, you could work 9-5 then work 11-8, then work 5-2. Doesn't matter how many years you have in. ESI is all about the money, while Medco was about the patients and employees.

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