CVS

Large Enterprises

CVS Health is a major American healthcare and retail pharmacy company that operates thousands of retail drugstores, pharmacy benefit management services, and health insurance through its Aetna subsidiary. It is one of the largest healthcare companies in the United States, known for integrating retail pharmacy, health services, and insurance.

3 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

CVS·Software Engineer·Hiring Manager Screen

May 2026

Behavioral screen for a bizops role at CVS. Just one question but it was the whole conversation basically, they really dug into the details.

Tell me about a time when a program you were managing fell behind on its committed timelines. What did you do?

“I had a real example ready but fumbled the sequencing a bit.”

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CVS·Data Scientist·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026

CVS Data Scientist technical screen, pretty much all SQL and Pandas. Three parts back to back, no behavioral fluff, just get in and write code. Felt more like a take-home crammed into a live session.

Given a claims table and a member table split across two sources, write a SQL query to compute the total paid amount per specialty and each specialty's share of the overall total paid.
Filter claims to calendar year 2017, union two member tables together, join to claims, and return the age band or bands with the highest claim count, including ties.
In Pandas, recode a gender column from M/F to male/female, then compute total paid amount grouped by gender and month for the year 2017.

“Window function territory.”

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CVS·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Apr 2026

Behavioral round at CVS for a data science role, just the one question from what I can tell. Pretty standard stuff but it made me think more than I expected.

Describe a situation where you had to weigh immediate results against longer-term objectives.

“I rambled a bit here.”

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