It's a good place to work depending on what you want in a job - Pharmacist RWJBarnabas Health Employee Review

4.0
Feb 27, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I work with great people. I like what I'm doing there and I never get micromanaged. It's a Monday-Friday job with an on call shift once every 2-3 months. Health care benefits are excellent.

Cons

Salary is a joke, easily 15-20% or more below typical retail salaries. There are no bonuses. There are no merit raises (i.e. you save them a million dollars this week and you're lucky to get a thanks) Yearly raises border on non-existent, and the process is laughable. 10% of people get no raise, 10% get a 1% raise, 60% get a 2% raise, 10% get a 3% raise, and 10% get a 4% raise. Oh but you're not competing against just other pharmacists for those above mentioned crumbs, you're competing against everybody. So a clerk who's job is to alphabetize things is graded the same way a pharmacist is, so it's no surprise that since the clerk knows the alphabet really well that clerk is almost certain to get a 4% raise. Also lets not forget that 4% on a pharmacists salary is a lot more than 4% on a clerks salary. I'm basically telling you to expect 2% no matter what you do.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jan 7, 2026
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Pros

• Part of a large healthcare system with name recognition • Exposure to a fast-paced clinical environment • Opportunity to gain experience juggling clinical and administrative tasks

Cons

• Seriously understaffed and overworked you’ll be running patients, doing POC, covering front desk, and handling admin for multiple providers all at once. • High patient volume and high turnover, so you’re always scrambling. • Supervisor Allison is messy, plays favorites with floats, micromanages, but doesn’t actually back up staff. • Upper management ignores clinical staff .. they just go straight to the doctor and supervisor. Makes you feel invisible. • HR is useless and unresponsive. • RWJ is cheap.. they won’t hire enough staff, so you end up doing way more than your role. • Floats sit in the lab on their phones while you’re doing all the work.

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