McKesson Reviews

I have been working at McKesson

Pros – healthcare benefits, incentive plans, fun team

Cons – boring work, crappy salary increases

Advice to Senior Management – Live up to your core principle of employee satisfaction. Low moral all around when the increases are so low and work/life balance isn't well unbalanced.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at McKesson full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Above average work/life balance, average pay compared to market

Cons – Limited growth opportunities above director level

Advice to Senior Management – Create opportunities to retain top talent, increase decision making speed

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at McKesson full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great start pay for an entry level position with an added shift differential for night shift. Opportunity for tuition reimbursement. Easy to get along with managers and coworkers. Overall an enjoyable place to work. Amazing benefits! Incentives available for high productivity. Cross training and promoting from within.

Cons – Can be dull at times, it is a repetitive process. Must be able to communicate well with others. Fast paced and minimal room for error. Must complete all work before the shift is over. There is a set start time, however you never know if the shift will be 7 hrs to 10 hrs. 40 hrs is NOT guaranteed.

Advice to Senior Management – Managers and supervisors are great and easy to communicate with.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at McKesson full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great opportunities for advancement, especially if you are open to moving
Recognition for hard work
Excellent benefits
Stable company

Cons – Can't think of any at this time

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at McKesson full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Solid management team that cares about employees

Cons – Big company, sometimes slow to move.

I have been working at McKesson

Pros – Good industry and good leadership.

Cons – Pay and benefits not competitive.

I have been working at McKesson full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The company offers competitive salaries, and benefits and for those with many years of service 28 days of PTO, use it or lose it.

Cons – A very risk adverse company. Unless you're in one of the very large business units you can expect a management change out about every 3 years or so. They say they are a performance driven company but when raises are handed out you have to risk paying your high performers and letting your solid performers suffer or vise versa. A lot of pressure is applied to identify low performers even when teams are small and long term. The raises are very small, at most a 4% pool is applied across the whole business unit that must be divided among everyone so a 5% - 6% raise is rare and has to be pulled from others. Frequent layoffs (3 in 7 years for us).

Advice to Senior Management – Take some time to actually reward employees. A 4% pool at best is nothing to get excited about and causes people to have to decide between making your high performers happy while making the solid performers mad, or making the solid performers happy while making the high performers mad. Usually it is the latter since 70%+ of your people are your solid performers. Respect your people. Even though you talk a good game with ICARE and all, you don't practice it when it comes to layoffs. Walking 25 year employees out the door with minutes notice even though they have been high/solid performers with an unblemished record is absolutely not showing respect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at McKesson full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Great benefits (at least when I was there)
- Good group of people that helped me early on in my career
- The training programs were great They sent a group of us periodically to locations around the country for different training programs.
- They had a very structured environment, which helped to discipline me in the following years after I left.
- The gym on the ground level was an awesome perk that I used quite a bit
- A portion of the building sits on one of the BART exits, so on really bad rainy days, you can come out of the BART station at Montgomery St and enter the building (afjacent to the gym and cafe) without ever having to actually go outside
- When I was there, turnover was very low - even after my 2 years there, i was STILL considered the 'new guy'.

Cons – - If you're young, as I was, (23 when I got there) you won't find anybody remotely close to your age. My coworkers the majority of them were like over 40-50+ and some past the age of retirement, and still there doing the same thing they're been doing for over 30+ years!
- Not much room at all for advancement,. Basically whatever you were hired for, you will be that same person the whole time you're there, so don't expect to move 'up the ladder' as they say.
- The structured environment I mentioned in Pros can be a Con if you don't adhere to that structure, which they are very strict about.
- The salary is avg at best. Raises are awful, no bonuses the years I was there, even with an awesome review.
- There will always be that 1 or 2 people who have worked at the company for eons who think they own the world and will treat you like crap and get away with it because of their value with the company. Well, there were 1 or 2 people like that when I was there.
- Company is still stuck in the last century. All the equipment is from the time the company was born (maybe not THAT old, but you get my drift). For the veterans, they probably don't know the diff anyways since they've been there 20-30+ years.

Advice to Senior Management – - Honestly, too many to list. One would be to allow your guys to work and stop micromanaging them, it's really annoying.
- Change the review process, it's old and doesn't work the way it should. Plus it's so inaccurate
- Stop acting like you're God just because you are 'Management'. Outside the company property you are still just a John Doe to everyone else. What makes you so special just because you've been working there since dirt was created.
- for God sake, upgrade the company equipment, or at least use your political powers to make magic and get it done, just like making magic at everything else

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at McKesson full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1) Good location, easy to commute. In the center of the city.
2) Most of my co-workers are nice, easy-going.
3) Work environment is relatively good.

Cons – 1) Poor infrastructure, many of them still us Windows XP with a big, heavy, dual core laptop.
2) Depend on which team you are in, many people have worked for the company for ages, not much motivation. If you are a young professional, I highly recommend not to work for McKesson. If you are about to retired, maybe
3) Poor management decision. Senior management only care about themselves and don't promote people often.
4) No bonus for analyst level. Manager bonus is limited too

Advice to Senior Management – I would give this company rating of 2.5-3.0. it is just OK. Senior management needs to think not only how to sell more drugs and make money for themselves but also need to care about their employees! No bonus for analyst, are you serious?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at McKesson

Pros – Work environment is very laid back, with alot of work. Work schedules are very flexible. Good family oriented environment.

Cons – No room for advancement if you are trying to advance futher in medical field. You have be employed with the employer a number of long years before you can advance. Employer does not promote from within. The pay rate is very low.

Advice to Senior Management – Management need to start considering promoting from within instead of hiring from outside, and losing time, money, and training employees who stay with the organization for a short period of time, and then leave.