McKesson reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,038 total reviews)
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Brian Tyler

81% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

McKesson has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,038 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The McKesson 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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1.0
Apr 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay exceptionally well for industry, if all you want is a paycheck and can deal with disrespect, BS this is the place for you.

Cons

- Place is the definition of Toxic Work environment, for past 6 months to a year lost approximately 8-10 people. This is not a call center with hundreds of people these are highly skilled people who had been working in the industry for some time. Team originally had max of 20-25 people. - High Turn over... shows when recruiters post “ looking to hire several security analyst positions”. - Management doesn’t share the same vision, argue during meetings with staff as well as vendors. - Leadership will feed you the right lines early on to get you to buy into the vision. - Team has no direction of where they are going. - Always pass of blame to someone else. - Complete disregard from leadership. - Claim to support diversity, actions show otherwise not allowing certain people to conduct the technical work they desire instead treating them like a secretary (scheduling meetings) - Management trash talk all those that left, literally calling them a cry baby on recorded medium. - Management believes they can and will steam roll other teams to abide by their requests ultimately burning potential relationships with other teams.

4.0
Mar 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, McKesson is a great company to work for if you're willing to work hard (and roll with the punches/be adapatable). As such a large company, there are virtually endless opportunities to expand your skillset (through both new roles and free training), but you have to put forth the effort to find/complete them. Their benefits, PTO, work from home, and work/life balance are generally great. There are lots of good people at the company, and lots of opportunities to network, collaborate, and try different kinds of roles. McKesson generally rewards employees who work hard, which is why so many people stay with the company for long periods of time/the life of their career. With any large company there will always be politics, but generally speaking, people who work hard (and network) do not have trouble getting promotions.

Cons

There is definitely a divide between those who hustle and those who 'coast'. The people who take advantage of learning/development opportunities are generally the hard workers/people who will move up at the company--however, there are still a large number of people (usually who have been with the company for 15+ years) who are content to do the bare minimum to keep their jobs. Those people exist both at the lower levels as well as in management--not all managers are willing to help their employees develop if it requires more effort than just a monthly check in. If you're under a bad manager, you can feel undervalued/overworked, while other people on the team seemingly do nothing all day and are compensated better because they have been with the company for a long time. In these situations, the only way out is to change roles/teams (which thankfully, McKesson has lots of opportunity to do). This leads to a 'brain drain' effect in the same departments over and over again, where long-time employees who consistently do not meet metrics stay with the department for years, while the 'new recruits' come in, work extremely hard, become disenchanted because they are overworked/underpaid, and leave the team as soon as they hit the 1 year mark and have the ability to apply out within the company. As the pharmaceutical industry grows and changes, McKesson has felt the pinch to cut costs as much as anyone. In some instances, that has led to senior management making sweeping changes to cut costs (while they adamantly deny it is cost-related) without thinking through the feasibility/impact on employees' day to day ability to do their work (for example, moving to flexible/non-assigned workspaces for the entire campus, regardless of whether or not some teams never work from home and need a desk every day to do their jobs).

1.0
Aug 28, 2018

No TP! Scottsdale.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None Pay maybe only good thing.

Cons

The entire building is out of toilet paper! This is unacceptable. Bathrooms are bad enough as it is here. Now worse with no TP! What kind of fortune 500 business is this?

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