It's shown me that I can handle a lot more stress than I ever thought I could. - Anonymous employee McKesson Employee Review

2.0
21 Apr 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Their products make it possible for Medical Professionals to provide better overall healthcare. That's worth something.

Cons

Non-existent training. They give you some books to read and classes on the application's client interfaces that are totally worthless for technical people who are doing installs, upgrades or database work. You're supposed to get information about how to troubleshoot the applications from your peers. The only problem is that the people who've survived the longest are strapped with the job of jumping from one project to another and firefighting all the time because the installs rarely go smoothly. The reason for this is that engineers are put into the position of supporting the apps long before they're ready and expected to sink or swim. They're basically training their people on the client's dime which seems unethical to me. Management sets tight deadlines and makes promises to the customer that things will happen on schedule which might actually happen if they had provided adequate training and guidance for their support people. The stress level working for them is incredible. Don't even consider it unless you have super human coping skills.

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Pros

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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McKesson Response
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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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