The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CVS Health
Interview
I had a personal reference working in similar team. Had a call with recruiter. Followed by simple coding round which included sql and pandas.
Then I was scheduled for a round with Hiring manager and another team member the same day 15 mins apart. Both the interviews were pretty staright forward. Scenario based. Nothing much technical.
Then I was scheduled for an interview with VP and the day before my interview it was cancelled. Some different recruiter emailed me stating the team needs to cancel this interview and they will get back when possible.
I called the original recruiter and she said the panel is confused and don’t think I am a fit for senior role. They want someone more technical. ( remember my interview with hiring manager wasn’t as technical as it generally is) I did tell the recruiter that my interview wasn’t technical in nature so i think the team might have missed the mark.
Total waste of time+ they low blow for total comp. As there are many candidates out there now.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Difference between random forest and decision tree
I applied online. I interviewed at CVS Health in May 2025
Interview
Recruiter screen first. Recruiter told me the next round she’d schedule would be behavioral. She totally. misled me. It turned out to be a purely technical python and sql interview with ML questions (was interviewing for an AI role). I wish I had just known because walking into that interview by surprise is not fun.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at CVS Health in Feb 2025
Interview
First there was a video call with the recruiter just where they explained about the job and also discussed my background. An interview was then scheduled, It was a video interview with the hiring manager.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at CVS Health (New York, NY) in Feb 2025
Interview
Interview process was generally unprofessional. For my first round, my interviewer never showed up to the interview, no email or anything to notify me of any cancellation. Several hours later, I received a very short email (no apology) that the meeting software was having issues and that I need to re-schedule. I rescheduled, and in that meeting the interviewer did not show up until roughly 15 minutes into our 30 minute call.
I went on to the technical screener, which was mostly about a dataset dealing with insurance claims for radiology. I am not extremely knowledgeable about insurance claims and different industry metrics associated with insurance claimants, and so I probably did not answer several of the questions very well. I spoke to my roommate after who deals with health insurance data and said it would be difficult to answer questions correctly without a prior understanding of what some of the metrics are measuring, and how they are calculated. Questions were a mix of SQL and Python.
I felt that the Python questions were a bit pedantic - instead of trying to solve for a genuine solution, most of the questions were essentially "Do you know this specific pandas command?(shape, info, describe, etc.)"
At the end, asked about A/B testing and experiment design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design an A/B test experiment to determine the success of flu shot brochures on vaccination rates?