McKesson Canada Reviews

Pros

Stable company
Standard benefits package
Many terrific coworkers

Cons

Minimal raises
No promotions
Directors don't share information with their employees
Elitist attitude

Advice to Senior Management

Well... there is really nothing that you can do to change the systems since the structure of HR and they way employees are treated is dictated by McKesson Corporation in the United States.

Pros

Your fellow employees, who understand what you are going through are supportive as best they can be.

Cons

Zero attempt at making new employees feel welcome. My desk still had the stickies from the employee who left the day before I showed up. My computer wasn't set up for me to work and I had to wait 2 weeks for head office to get permissions so that I could do my job. After several months of working at McKesson, I still had not been set up with half my programs that I was expected to have.

Training substandard. You sit in a room for 8 hours listening to someone drone on about how to do your work. By the end of the day you have no clue what is expected of you or how to do your job. However, when you make (and you will) constant mistakes due to not being trained, you will be told "don't you remember training"? I was "trained" for 20 minutes on a new system and then expected to run it with no mistakes. Once I had made several, it was given to another employee to attempt while I wasn't told I was no longer responsible and kept on producing reports.

Management has no time for employees. Go up to ask them questions, they will give you a curt and (often) wrong answers. This will be your fault when you make mistakes based upon the incorrect information you were given. Mistakes made on your first day of work with zero training will be pointed out to you in condescending emails.

No process for advance or feedback. If you are doing well or poorly you are not told. Once your "training" is over you are on your own, literally. Dropped in front of a computer with the phones ringing and customers to serve, you struggle along hoping that you are doing the right thing. Management has no time to help you progress through your career. Either you are fired at the end of the month (you did poorly) or you keep your job until the next month (you are doing well, I expect).

Their computer systems are from 1995. They still use MS-DOS programs as their main platform. There were no working chairs in my department, only those that employees themselves had purchased.

Their turnover rate is 86%, to be expected of a call centre but not of a company that is promoting itself as "excellent customer service leader of the industry".

Advice to Senior Management

Onboarding, training, mentoring. Why are none of these things present at this company.

Pros

large customer base, possibility of long term employment

Cons

Technically incompetent management, people not treated with respect, valuated based on how
they report instead of real technical contribution and achievements. If want to experience the Dilbert's corporate world a live than that's the place to be. A good place to prosper for mediocre
engineer good at writing nice reports, but if you are not like that you will struggle to both deliver and
and somehow satisfy internal nonsensical bureaucratic requirements, you will be the last one to take a credit for your hard work and the first one to blame.

Advice to Senior Management

Get real, your software is done by people writing the software and not by the people speaking about how to write the software. Give the credit to people who do actual work for you.

Pros

Stability, perks of big company. Good fellow employees, interesting work. Better than the competition in the medical imaging field.

Cons

You will be a small employee in big company, all good positions taken by boomers. No parking spots. No bonuses. Minimal salary increases. Upper management keeps shuffling themselves positions in a matrix style manner, announcing a new director or manager every single week. There is roughly one project manager per developer, they argue and fight over the engineers. Project managers come and go as they are regularly fired for incompetence. The power is held at the director level. Title of manager means 'secretary'.

Advice to Senior Management

When you promote mediocrity, you get it.

Pros

Company strives for excellence but sails on mediocrity. If you want to do just the bare minimum and get away with it. Also, more stable vs big pharma.

Cons

Large company, little opportunity for real advancement. Continual restructuring. Salaries are below par vs industry. No support for education. No understanding of needs for work/life balance. Exploitative work environment: senior management have elitist behaviour, treat reports as if they own, not employ them. Salary increases annualy are just minimum. Employment offers are below market - so they either get desperate, very inexperienced or plain stupid . High turnover rate, since a lot of people are sold on premises that they're getting a career opportunity, yet once they join they are being ignored and unappreciated.workers to join.

Advice to Senior Management

Correct salaries. Support workers' education and work/life issues. Treat people with more respect.

Pros

Pretty laid back environment. Shorts and t-shirts at work

Cons

Very little potential in career growth and development

Advice to Senior Management

Don't get stuck in the 80's. Appreciate your employees effort better.