I hope I never work at Walgreens again. - Pharmacy Intern Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
4 Nov 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They pay you a dollar or two more an hour for the same job title as other places. The catch is that they require you to do a lot more. You get holiday pay whether or not you work on the holiday. You have an employee's discount. Some customers are sweet and some workers are nice but they come from all across the spectrum.

Cons

-They cut hours and ask for more, more, and more. Imagine if someone asked you to watch an hour long movie in 50 minutes everyday. Now imagine that each time they ask you to do that, they reduce the time that they want you to spend doing it. Impossible. There's simply not enough people to do the job right. You can work hard, get that blood flowing, and the adrenaline going but keeping up with the work, doing the job right, and satisfying management and customers all the time is too hard to do when you don't have enough time. The stress will lead you to an early death and a bigger paycheck for upper management. They stress efficiency but they must have no idea that there is a limit to how effcient you can be before you have to start sacrificing quality. As a result customers get angry, you get upset, management wonders why/knows why and has to side with the customer anyway. Walgreens will fall if it keeps this up.

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5.0
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Pros

Opportunity for advancement, engaging supportive environment

Cons

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2.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Gave me decent pay. Bought us little gifts and food at holidays.

Cons

Gave away one of my paychecks to another employee and refused to reimburse me because of issues with "their bank." My RxM created a hostile work environment showing clear favoritism for employees. Eventually, HR got involved, and I was no longer scheduled with him. I did not ask for this change, and actively resented it, because now I had fewer hours, meaning less pay on top of the $500 corporate had already stolen from me. They had no interest in training me or anyone else to become certified as promised. Over and over again, they hired people, ran out the time on their licenses, and let techs choose between paying to get certified elsewhere, or losing their jobs. The only thing Walgreens was passionate about was convincing patients that they couldn't even provide their regular medications to get vaccines. Often unneeded. The "patient care" calls are blatant and illegal marketing for vaccines, since Walgreens makes it next to impossible for a patient to opt out of it. I would NEVER get my medications here after seeing how poorly everything is managed, how unethical company policies and patient health were regarded, and how mistreated the staff were.

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