Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,124 total reviews)
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23% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,124 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Walgreens employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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37K reviews
3.0
Jul 4, 2014

Great company until 2009

Recommend
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Pros

They used to promote from within and encouraged employees to stay with the company long term. They always offered stock purchase programs to employees.

Cons

In 2009 they began laying off employees who had been with the company the longest. They did not offer any pay cuts or the possibility of remaining with a downgraded position. They destroyed the office morale of all the remaining employees.

2.0
Apr 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Established leader in the market.

Cons

Culture shift; lots of changes, that seem haphazard; promotions and titles are not rewarded to those who are necessarily high performers, but are thrown around to brown-nosers, political players, pretenders; many people who are "dead weights" who seem to hang on to their jobs because they are adept are looking busy but not contributing in a real way; in a time of austerity, some upper level management expend company funds for frivolous purposes

3.0
Mar 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best reasons to work for Walgreens is easily the work environment and the beliefs behind the company. Walgreens asks employees to complete surveys every year to see what is really going on in their stores and what should be improved.

Cons

Some of the choices in management are very questionable. Three of my five assistant managers did not have the needed skills for their jobs and were forced to learn the skills and the requirements through a program but that work could only be completed on the clock, when employees need them. Employees stop caring after a while and stop trying so those of us that still do care have to pick up all the slack and then we get burned out.

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