Ok - Certified Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
1 Mar 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Will train Raises every year Good place to start

Cons

Upper management doesn't understand pharmacy policies or how busy it is and request insane projects be completed that doesn't further anything. Always understaffed and at my store since we kept getting good stores they kept cutting our hours saying that if we can get all that done we don't need as many people/hours. Walgreens pays their techs the lowest in the area most other pharmacy's start their techs $3-4 more an hour. Only one promotion oppritunity to Senior Tech and they cap how much a tech can make per hour.

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

The management is accommodating and doesn't ask of to much.

Cons

At one point the heat was out during the winter, but i'll say that this was only for about a week.

3.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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