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Express Scripts

Acquired by The Cigna Group

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Express Scripts Software Engineer reviews

3.4

98% would recommend to a friend

(26 total reviews)
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Tim Wentworth

99% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Express Scripts with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 26 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Express Scripts is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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26 reviews
2.0
Dec 30, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The new headquarters is very nice. The cafeteria is excellent. They pay contractors very well. They've attempted to advance their technologies. Everyday is a new challenge. The corporation continues to grow.

Cons

They treat employees like commodities rather than humans, unless of course you are connected to the right manager. If you know the right people then you receive all the praise and job security that you would ever need. They need to stop existing in constant emergency mode. For a company so large and with so much resources available to them they could easily cultivate the knowledge and experience that they have gained so that development and implementation could occur in an orderly fashion with far fewer mistakes. Every time they let someone go all of the knowledge that the person has gained just walks right out the door. Management does not seem to understand the huge expense associated with this loss. It takes 3 months for a new person to become fully productive and it could take up to a year or more to become an expert. You spend all of that time training that person only to dismiss them? Does this make sense?

2.0
Nov 4, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation in IT is generally competitive, benefits are decent. Paid time off is good, when you're allowed to take it.

Cons

After touting all the accomplishments of the IT team in recent years, upper management proceeded this last year to basically dismantle that very same team and replace a lot of people with outsourced contractors. This used to be a good place to work in IT, with good collaboration between teams and opportunities to learn and apply new technologies. Now it's just about pushing ambitious projects through with impossible deadlines. All projects are managed "by crisis", people are overworked and product quality is suffering. Project managers often don't understand what they're managing. This company basically sells information technology services for the health care industry, and yet treats IT as an expense, not as a revenue generator. They're foolishly counting on the economic downturn to get the most out of their employees without having to worry about keeping them happy. "You need to work harder, because the alternative is to be unemployed" is a popular "pep talk" given by management.

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