CVS Health reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(46,779 total reviews)
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David Joyner

49% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

CVS Health has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 46,779 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CVS Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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47K reviews
2.0
Sep 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

your day goes by quickly because there is so much work to do.

Cons

The RI. bean counters have cut store staffing to the bone. You have to prioritize what you are not going to get done. Their focus on customer service is a positive thing, however, that focus cuts into getting tasks accomplished which is very stressful. In reality the majority of customers don't want the constant canned "in your face" service approach. Customers want help when they need it which requires some staff on the sales floor but the hours are just not there.

1.0
Sep 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Store operation structure for tasks is good. There are exceptions. Read Cons.

Cons

Understaffed! Work load for managers is extremely heavy and is compounded by additional requests / task from District Managers. No support from other managers, district manager, or company. (It is a C.Y.A. company. " You can help me, but I won't help you" kind of business. District manager is a terrible communicator! Store operations structure is good if that was all you had to worry about, but add any additional tasks or emergency tasks and it throws your whole operations out the window. Veteran managers and long time employees look down on anyone new to the company. CEO pulls down $15 million dollars a year, but average store has a manager and a one employee per shift in the front store and four to five techs in the pharmacy. Techs and front store employees are underpaid. Employee discount is weak, considering that it will not count on AD items, Sale items, and merchandise is way overpriced to begin with. The hiring process takes too long. You go to hire a candidate, put them through the system, and then if your lucky, you get them into orientation in two weeks. When you tell the candidate "okay, you can start in two or three weeks."; they decide to go somewhere else....BECAUSE THEY WANT TO WORK AND NEED TO GET A PAYCHECK!

1.0
Sep 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is better than other retail chains, but only for pharmacists. They have a sense of community responsibility (removing tobacco products, and promotes charitable giving, although not to the extent of other companies I've worked for).

Cons

They expect too much work from employees and give too little support and an inferior, inefficient, confusing computer system to do it with. Everything is micro managed. There are too many "metrics" you are measured by. They expect you to do online training, but they do not give you enough time to actually do it...employees often have to do it during a shift, while helping customers, answering phones, and filling prescriptions so that no one really learns anything and often have to ask others for the answers to the evaluation test that you have to pass in order to get credit for the course. They measure you on how many vaccinations you give, how many phone calls you make, how many people enroll in an automatic refill system that doesn't work the way it should, how many people enroll in text messaging, how many prescriptions you fill on time, how long it takes to get a person through the drive through window,......I could go on and on. Every computer upgrade, innovation, procedure they introduce brings groans to the staff because they always result in more work and more bugs. This is a company run by non-pharmacists...or pharmacists who have not stepped foot in a pharmacy to work in years. Also, this is a company based on the east coast and the decisions that they make make it obvious that they do not consider the west coast stores at all. The outside vendor order line (for certain items) has a deadline of 4pm PST, meaning if a patient came into a CA store on a Thursday after 4pm and we have to order brand name Diovan for them, they would have to wait until Monday to get it! And if you try an order a non-preferred generic (because the preferred is out of stock at both the CVS warehouse and the OV) you can only order enough for one patient...never mind that you have 10 patients waiting for it.

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