Hard Work. Pay fluctuates. - Senior Warehouse Associate Cencora Employee Review

3.0
16 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It's a job and it's pharmaceutical, so you will have a job. You'd have to try really hard to get fired like drinking on the job or something similar. They have employee discounts for their stock.

Cons

Inconsistent pay across different staff and seasons. Of course it's a warehouse job, so expect your paychecks to vary between several hundred dollars. We lost a contract which brought a lot of our checks to bare bone minimums. Some of us had to find a side hustle just to pay rent and childcare. We even had people use their PTO to make 40 hours. You will have a job, but there will be times you work 36 hours or less a week. On the other hand, for peak seasons, they expect you to work crazy overtime or unreasonable shifts. We literally had a snow storm where roads were covered in ice. Our director and night manager told us we had to come in to work. The governer announced a state of emergency, but our bosses still told us to come to work. If we didnt go in, we had to use unscheduled PTO which is penalized if we use too much.

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5.0
12 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good management, decent pay with LM.

Cons

Shift times could be better, but it’s warehousing

3.0
19 May 2026
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A rare enterprise that still offers fully remote work. Smart colleagues, most of whom are parents and/or family caregivers. Most respectful corporate environment I've experienced in terms of protecting work-life balance and boundaries around after-hours and weekend work.

Cons

Cencora relies heavily on contractors to the extent that it can be hard for even longtime employees to tell who is on contract vs. who is a "FTE" (full-time employee). This current fiscal year we've endured multiple reorgs, with staff reductions impacting not just contractors but full-timers and even some senior leadership. Budgets were slashed significantly and continue to be whittled away. Chaos ensues in the wake of colleagues being let go suddenly, with minimal communication from team leads and not enough time allotted for offboarding preparations or knowledge sharing. Low morale among the skeleton crews that remain. We had great run last fiscal year. This fiscal year, the state of the business feels increasingly precarious.

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