Pros
Great place to hide and get a decent salary
Cons
The company has grown through acquisitions but has hired unskilled and unproven directors and managers who cannot create value. Their growth tactics outside of acquisitions is to copy their competitors without understanding the strategy. It's sort of a "let's try it and see what happens" mentality that almost always results in wasted resources. It appears that the only way that Senior Leadership thinks to maintain shareholder value is through layoffs of which there has been about 4 or 5 in the past 4 years. Most of the employees that have become senior management have done so with the help of management consultants of Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey or they are former employees of those firms. Managers and directors are mostly Pharmacist that don't have a clear understanding of business or finance or former management consultants that bring their arrogance and inability to develop their subordinates to the culture; turning a good working environment to a shark tank, complete with backstabbing, idea theft and healthy doses of the "blame game". I've develop several valuable initiatives that were destroyed do to politics of management and other stakeholders and because of this the customer suffered. The Retail Pharmacy Operations group culture has morphed into a team of management consultant wanna-be's who feel that the only way to be successful is to mimic their arrogance and develop the skill of appearing productive while producing a dizzying array of meaningless graphs, charts and reports and saying "yes" at every opportunity.