Symbria Reviews

There are lots of facets to this company so your mileage may vary. Generally if you work at Corporate or in management be prepared for an incredibly frustrating experience. The company is trying to sustain rapid growth but does not involve any of the staff or management in any kind of decision making or planning for this growth. Growth related projects or initiatives are usually sprung on you at the last minute with no regard for existing workload. Executive leadership makes almost every decision in a vacuum and fails to communicate these decisions effectively more often than not. There are miles and miles of red tape to get anything done. Any initiative you're involved in will likely take longer to get approved/reviewed/signed off on than to actually complete. Symbria hires a lot of very capable staff and ties their hands behind their back with red tape and poor communication. Executive leadership is notoriously nitpicky and impossible to please. There is a clear culture of superiority among the executive leadership that makes many employees feel disrespected on a regular basis. Be ready to spend more time tweaking your work to the random whim of a C level rather than something actually important to the ESOP. Though this company is an ESOP I felt I had less input than any other company I've worked for. Benefits change significantly every year and get slightly worse every year. Work life balance is not a thing here because the only way to meet the absurd demands of leadership is to work constantly.

Please Google Symbria ESOP lawsuit. This company is corrupt from the top down. Corporate employees such as HR and IT start with 2 weeks more of PTO than pharmacy employees. Corporate employees are capped at 30 days of PTO while pharmacy employees are capped at 20 days. In addition, corporate employees are given more holidays off with pay. There are 20 year pharmacy employees with less PTO than recently hired corporate employees. SYMBRIA HR is there to protect SYMBRIA’s interests ONLY. HR and management will not view you as a human being. SYMBRIA only wants to employ emotionless robots that do not have children, do not get sick, do not complain about poor working conditions and inhumane schedules. Any complaint will be framed as “unprofessional”. I was actually told by the pharmacy manager that I was using being a single mother as an excuse for tardiness. She told me that there are a lot of single mothers that get to work on time so my complaint was not valid. She attempted to shame and belittle me for my difficult life situation instead of being a supportive, caring manager. And please note I was the highest rated pharmacist according to the last annual review. Management expected me to be at work and logged on to my computer by 7am. I explained that the earliest I could drop my daughter off at daycare was 6:30am. Therefore, I have 30 minutes to get my 18 month old baby settled through the doors of daycare and then into my desk at work. I begged for them to work with me, a 9 year employee by altering my schedule by 15-30 minutes but was denied. Pharmacist are fully capable of working from home when necessary. I asked if I could work from home 2 weeks prior to my due date since we had a few employees test positive for Covid. I was denied. I contracted Covid 5 days before delivering my baby which made for a terrible delivery experience. If you choose to work here, don’t even think about standing up for yourself or what is right. You will lose every time.