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Q&A With McKesson Employees
McKesson employees know that our work makes a difference in the life of a patient, every minute of every day. And we take that job seriously. That’s why we come to work every day, ready to deliver. We celebrate diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We are problem solvers and answer seekers. We are life-long learners and passionate explorers. We are McKesson. And together, we’re shaping the future of healthcare.
How employees describe working at McKesson
Always looking ahead for new opportunities.
Posted a month ago
Ever since the company started promoting unqualified people to manage, the moral has gone down.
Review from Operations Dept
VACATION AND PTO TIME SS
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HR was nice, asked relevant questions
What it's like to work at McKesson
- McKesson employees generally work 9.2 hrs a day
- Employees at McKesson report the work pace is comfortably fast
- On a typical day, employees at McKesson have 4+ meetings
- 80% of McKesson employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- McKesson employees most often take 20-30 paid vacation and sick days each year
- 66% of McKesson employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- McKesson employees never get valuable feedback on how to improve at work
- 66% of McKesson employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With McKesson Employees
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What do people at McKesson think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
People have the lowest moral and dislike the CEO. Worst job ever.
Great guy
The CEO is new (as CEO) but everyone likes and respects him. He's quite down-to-earth and approachable. At this point - it's been a short time that he's been CEO - it's difficult to know what he needs to improve.
How's the work life balance at McKesson?
Top Employee Response
Great but going down to nothing.
Perfect...unless your on-call
It's typically fairly good, but it depends on your role, department and manager. Sorry for the vague answer.
What are your coworkers at McKesson like?
Top Employee Response
McKesson IT has historically been a very old-style IT group with a lot of nice people but questioned the value they provided. Over the past year this has changed where a lot of the "old style" have left and a more technology and customer focused org is being built. Lot of good people, but still progress to make on modernizing IT but new leaders in place are really good.
A handful are great, helpful. The rest -> Forget it! You say hello to them, they stare at you as they walk by, backstabbing, cynical, some try to get you fired and you have no say. Management turns a blind eye to all of it, they keep the bad people and fire the good.
Nice Helpful We work as a team
What's the interview process like at McKesson?
It really depends on the role and department, but it can take a few weeks and usually means interviews with several people.
Depends it kept changing
Long. And more situational then about you
What part of McKesson's business is growing fastest? What part is having difficulties?
HR, they keep firing the good people only to hire the bad
The technology businesses in pharmacy (Relay, CoverMyMeds). Majority of other businesses are having trouble.
Specialties and mail in our central fill
What interview questions does McKesson ask?
Top Employee Response
Hobbies,. I could you contribute to the team
They ask what would you do......
Too many to determine if candidate is confident not necessarily cocky
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at McKesson?
Pay my employees what they are worth. You cannot retain good talent if you under pay them. They will always leave and go elsewhere..
Better systems of communication and a better way to integrate high vial solutions to work better with each work group. I feel the current system stagnates innovation
Promote someone based upon their work habits instead of how many degrees they have.
What's the work from home policy like at McKesson?
The IT group did away with work from home and all employees are expected to come into the office, or were given packages. Other groups vary - it is not consistent.
Our IT manager took advantage of this policy for about half of his work week. All other employees were required to come to work based on the need of the business.
Varies by department. I work from home 1 day a week
What's the office vibe like at McKesson?
Top Employee Response
It really depends on the location and the department. In general, people are really friendly and I'd say that most people would say that a big reason they stay is because of their co-workers. In SF, we enjoy each other's company, respect one another, work hard, but also enjoy the flexibility of working from home. It's a very lean team, which has it's challenges, so you can expect to do a lot of everything.
It was cool til they took the foos table which was an incredible stress reliever
It is Vanilla.
How would you describe your overall experience interviewing at McKesson?
Follow-up is usually pretty poor, it can take a long time and sometimes people never even hear back. But overall, it is a typical interview process for a large company. Best thing to do is stay in touch with the hiring manager.
Good....cuz i got a job there
Terrible
What should I wear for an interview at McKesson?
Business casual along with a clean hair cut. If you come in with a suite on you will look like a salesperson...good luck to you as well!!!
Dress professionally. It's a corporate environment.
Business casual
How challenged are you at McKesson?
they can't even spell challenged
Not challaned at all
100%
How does McKesson make decisions around promotions?
Family and/or friends
someone is getting the job, really before any interviewing processs start. To show face they have to interview to have the perception that it was truly an open McKesson Job Listing. Just a total waste of time and money
I Am not sure they treat their contractors very badly. One of The program mangers plays favorites to basic origami loving reps.
What benefits does McKesson provide?
Top Employee Response
Medical, dental, Free coffee, teas, soda, etc
Health insurance. Dental insurance. Eye vision, matching 401k,Profit Sharing.. And 2 weeks paid vacation the first day you start
401K upto 6 percent match Stock purchase program Empower point system based on goals Health, dental , vision
How are the career growth opportunities on the IT team at McKesson?
McKesson recently centralized all of its IT (central IT and all BU IT). GIven this, and given cost pressures that will last the next year or two, career growth is worse than normal as there are too many people in IT and there will be reductions. If already there, there is normal growth (promotion) opportunities, but the fact is there are 2-3 people for most leadership jobs at this point.
Extremely bad. They hire the wrong people to work above you and they have no management skills and no communication skills. They lie to you to keep you quiet. The managers above them only want to hear what they want to hear. I for any reason, whether true or false, they feel that you can't give them what they want, they will walk you out the door right then and there, no opportunity to say goodbye to the others, and fire you on the spot. Don't think that you can save your job by talking about it, they'll lie to you and say it was all because of the budget. The ones that have been promoted, have no clue what they're doing, and they will and have overlooked the good people who should be promoted.
How are layoffs handled in the IT department at McKesson?
They pull you in the office and lie to you. "You did a great job, but it's Budget cuts". You can't say goodbye, you have to pack up and be escorted out. Then a recruiter sends you an email showing you a job opportunity with the exact same skills of your last position at McKesson. And if you need a referral, you won't get one, they won't answer any emails or return any phone calls.
Depends, it has worked differently depending on the case. Few recent examples: - IT eliminated work from home so those not willing to move to an office location were given a package. - Cost cutting has also hit people and this is mixed, but generally going after non-wanted positions. The one negative is communications haven't been good with recent leadership - people are often left wondering what their roles are as leadership changes and some are really poor at talking to their people and then they are eventually let go.
How's the vacation policy at McKesson?
Pretty good...gets better over the period of employments also.
2 weeks a year for first time employee
Does McKesson drug test or do a background check?
Top Employee Response
yes to both.
Yes they do drug screening and background check.
How do I do well in an interview at McKesson?
Be honest with your answers
This is a tough question as interviewing is not standard and varies based on group and hiring manager. But a couple of suggestions: first, you have to get noticed which is difficult. Having a referral is best as so many managers look at referrals. Second, be sure to be able to answer behavioral questions (specifics on what you did in different situations and your impact).
How's the morale at McKesson?
Pretty low - in IT, there have been significant org changes that have been communicated poorly, they ended work-from-home which caused many to be whacked, and the financial health of the company is very challenged right now as the way of making money in drug distribution has gone away, specialty is difficult to make money in, and they sold off the technology businesses.
Terrible
How long do the interviews usually take at McKesson?
Top Employee Response
Not sure if you are asking about the time an in-person or phone interview actually takes or the length of time for the interview / hiring process. Interviews usually start with a recruiter screen which is pretty short. Manager or team interviews are usually 30-60 minutes long depending on the manager and I would expect to have at least a couple, maybe 4 or 5. The interview process can be long, McKesson is pretty bad at the overall process and I would expect it to take weeks at least, sometimes more. The issue I have had is candidates are frequently not even communicated back to - I have had personal referrals to other groups that just never hear back which is really bad and something I wish would change but just doesn't seem to.
30-40 min
How would you compare interviewing at McKesson to other places you've interviewed?
Other places are much better
Interview process was ok, nothing special
What kind of people succeed at McKesson?
Top Employee Response
Very low performing organization
Brown Nosers and snitches
How's the work pace at McKesson?
Slow and boring
Fast
How much and how often do raises happen at McKesson?
Never
Annually
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Should I work at McKesson?
46% of McKesson employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 18% are neutral and 36% would not recommend working at McKesson to their friends.
| 46% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 18% | Passive |
| 36% | Detractors |
