Great people, good products, not so great senior leadership - Anonymous employee McKesson Employee Review

3.0
30 Mar 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- The people are great to work with, dedicated to their job and passionate about the products they build and support. - The job did lend itself to career advancement but, for me, that was only because people left or were fired and someone had to take their place. - Good benefits - Great amount of paid time off

Cons

- Pay is not so great. - Senior leadership seems confused about what direction they want to take things. - The company or the business units reorganize way too often. Just about the time you get used to things being the way they are, they go and change things. - They lay off far too many people far too often. The frequency alone is a huge disruption and very unproductive. - They lay off the wrong people. They keep the people who are not performing or who don't know what they are doing and get rid of people who know how to do the job and they work hard. Very strange. - They do not know how to cut costs. They seem to only do that by way of doing lay offs.

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1. relatively aloof culture for ICs to grow on their own 2. on and off few people are good 3. Actually consultants in india are better than some full time hires to work with. The h1bs in full time roles and some GCs/Americans are just 1 step away from unemployment line but there are some good quality consultants who can be directed well to bring in good work. Problem is lack of direction when middle management is just running after money.

Cons

1. top most management is clueless to what is going post the middle tier 2. middle tiers - VPs/SVPs/Directors and Sr. Directors are among the worst. Mostly cast offs from Consulting firms/Tech cos/Other Healthcare firms, this group has some of the worst, clueless folks who just think very narrowly about how to get rid of problems, maybe craft a story for higher ups. Get rid of this layer ( so called people management ) and co. could shine better on the work of ICs, decent software engineers and regular rank and file. 3. Main money maker distribution is different from tech group and the IT here is almost comical - 2 years ago in 2024 there were "directors" bringing AI agents with 90% hallucination .. I mean that has got to be an industry first!

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Thank you for bringing these issues to our attention. We are committed to creating a positive work environment and are disappointed to learn that we fell short. We are taking your feedback seriously and are making efforts to address the concerns raised. Please feel free to reach out for a more in-depth discussion.
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