CVS Health reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(46,767 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 46,767 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
1.0
May 20, 2021

Meat Grinder

Recommend
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Pros

If you swallow the corporate Koolaid and are cool with selling your team a load of BS, you will do well in this company. You will learn leadership and management skills that will serve you well as you transition into a better company than CVS.

Cons

No work/life balance. Store Managers are exploited. You must work 45 hours per week and your salary is based off of those 45 hours; however, you do not get a penny for any time over those 45 hours. When you take into account that your "breaks" are already factored into the MySchedule system, you are really in your store for 49 hours per week if you do the minimum. Extremely low Front Store payroll means that you WILL work more than 45 hours per week if you want your store to look good and be operationally sound. Front Store Managers who promote to District Leader are on a different pay scale than Pharmacy Managers promoted to district leader. District Leaders who come from the RX receive a base salary of $145-150,000 per year, while DLs who come from the front store earn a base salary around $80-85,000 (both will be higher in big city markets like Boston or NYC). What kind of incentive is that? Unfair and discriminatory against the FS.

2.0
Apr 30, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

If your coworkers are great and you have nice customers, the job is fine. Those are the only real pros.

Cons

CVS corporate sucks. They don't care about you as an employee, they care about their bottom line. They technically give bonuses to beauty team members based on sales, but they have steadily cut away at the bonus percentage and made it more difficult to achieve, to the point where almost no beauty consultants I knew made a bonus by the time I left (and I understand it has only gotten worse). They set unrealistic sales goals, treat you like a child with their trainings, and then expect you to exclusively work the busiest store hours (which are usually mid-day shifts and weekends, so sorry if you want a social life). They don't want beauty people doing any of the physical parts of the job (like putting away weekly shipments or counting inventory), but don't give the store enough hours to have another employee do it correctly, so you either do it yourself and risk getting in trouble for it, or have to deal with your department being a mess. Oh, and they also expect you to offer flu shots and sign customers up for the store loyalty program as you offer assistance, which is a joke.

1.0
Apr 23, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

None, none, none, none, none (I was required to write 5 words).

Cons

Treated like an animal in a cage. Management is clueless. Given too many tasks to possibly complete in addition to seeing a full schedule of patients. Reprimanded if you come in early, leave late, or work through lunch to complete admin tasks. Metrics trumps quality...ALWAYS.

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