Walgreens: the good and the bad. - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Nov 29, 2008
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Pros

The opportunity to build good relationships with individuals. To interact with people who are ill and are there as patients in the healthcare system. Career opps are there because it's such a huge company. It gave me an opportunity to get into management that I otherwise wouldn't have had. The compensation is higher than many other companies with similar positions. As far as recognition and feedback goes if you have observant intelligent leaders your work will be appreciated and recognized. I personally have been very satisfied with the District management. The current DM in my district has raised the minimum level of what I expect of myself. I'll always appreciate that.

Cons

The company is so large and so many positions need to be filled that there are too many unqualified people in leadership postions (as well as non leadership positions). Because of this I feel some of them do not know how to communicate properly or lead. Instead some of them merely tell people what to do. Leadership is much more than just telling people what to do (A common saying in these situations is: we have a business to run.) Of course you do. People work there and paople shop there. In this worst case scenario the imbalance is there. Where these leaders exist morale also suffers. As well as some employees feeling an imbalance to work-life. Of course some of these issues are true in any company.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

limited hours for work , unpridicted demand of the job

3.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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