Transparency for Employment Seeker - Senior Product Manager, Digital and Marketing Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Jan 4, 2016
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Pros

Working in digital. Ability to actually ship features and enhancements on a regular basis. Highly talented UX team, who advocates for customer-first approach. Agile methodology. Exposure to cutting edge digital technologies. Great experience for short-term tour of duty, 18 months to 4 years depending on your team and manager. Ability to acquire in-depth understanding of retail business, pharmacy and health-care industry---core industries that will be around and are green pastures because of transformations due to telemedicine, digital in health and more. Top fortune company. Well-known brand. Now a global brand with opportunities to influence work streams with global counterparts.

Cons

Leadership focus is on moving the revenue needle and driving cost savings. Very poor talent management and no clear pathway for career development, even when demonstrating performance results, thought leadership and direct/indirect leadership of teams and others. Meritocracy is an illusion.... Dramatic changes in digital leadership and management. President/CMO and her EVP responsible for eCommerce, both digital and mobile, have departed. At least 15 digital leaders at Director level and above have left the company, and key digital talent at Sr. Manager and Manager bands who actually executed work have left. Recent IT lay-offs. Expect more attrition (bonuses have paid out) and some people to be managed out. Lack of diversity in senior leadership and management-level opportunities. This is typical and not too different from most fortune companies

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
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Pros

Flexible, not too many things to do, focus on your job, great customers, fun, free products. Working with customers. The area lead was amazing. It went down hill after she left.

Cons

The got rid of the position in many stores

3.0
Jun 25, 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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