Good company BUT...... - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
2 Oct 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provide excellent training, a very impressive wage, and the opportunity to cross train which is good for those people who hate to do the same job over and over year in and year out.

Cons

The biggest con is seeing that Walgreens prefers that their management has a college degree of some sort it is really hard to move up to management from within if you do not have a degree.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
25 Jun 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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