Pros
Walgreens gives recent college graduate the opportunity to become assistant manager without having prior experience, and also offer a summer internship assistant manager program. In addition one you become an assistant manager you can apply to become promoted to executive assistant manager.
Cons
The downsides at working at Walgreens as an assistant manager is that the store manager and the executive assistant delegate most of the responsibility to the assistant manager. As an assistant manager I had to close the store most of the time. The store manager would not hire enough employees in order to safe money for his annual bonus. I would be short-staffed most of the time. Every night I would was only given two employees and some times only one employ. I was expected to run a store that was three times as big as a regular Walgreen's store with only two people, and I was expected to clean and pick up the store as if a had a full staff. Every night was challenge, I did not know what to expect. I would have customers complain all the time about the lack of service. I did the best I could to help every custormer, however, it was a challenge to provide good customer service without employees. Working at walgreens was a nightmare because as an Assistant manager I had to my job as an assistant manager, the work of the photo cleck since we would not have anyone in the camera department and the manager did not bother to train anyone in camera, I also had to do the work of the cosmetic clerk because the clerk have a not clue about how run the department, and at times I was also asked by the phamacist to help him ring in pharmacy. Although the pay was decent, I did not considered it enough for all the work that is involved in the position. Therefore, I resigned from my position as an assistant manager , because I did not see myself doing that job forever, the job was wearing me off. I did not spend four years obtaining a college degree to clean bathrooms and toilets. I respect the people that do, because there are many people that need the money and the did not go to college. However, that was not my case. If you are considering working at Walgreens as an Assistant manager you have to be prepared to multi-task, and do the jobs of other employees if you are short handed, even cleaning toilets.