CVS Health

Applications Development Advisor Interview Experience - United States

August 1, 2014

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and was contacted by a recruiter within a week. After the initial screening with the recruiter, there were two back-to-back, one-hour interviews with the hiring manager and the team. The questions were mainly technical, focusing on past experience. The people were very nice, and the interview was comfortable. HR was responsive and proactive in notifying whether you were selected or not selected.

Questions

General questions based on work experience. But they want the candidate to have used the specific tools they are looking for. If the candidate has used other similar tools and has good experience and ability to perform, they still need the exact skills as mentioned in their requirements.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the CVS Health Applications Development Advisor role in United States.

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Pass Rate

CVS Health's interview process for their Applications Development Advisor roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for CVS Health's Applications Development Advisor interview process in United States.

CVS Health Work Experiences

Medicaid.org runs at startup pace with Fortune 4 weight

Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee

September 22, 2023

Pros: Some opportunity to learn and grow in tech stack knowledge. Work-life balance can be very good. Remote work was a cultural norm until after the pandemic; then the tide reversed a bit. Pay can be okay, but only if you jump around or negotiate hard upon hire. Otherwise, it's dismal for the effort expectations. In the prior 30 years, there had never been general layoffs. Some genuinely amazing people to work with, though few of them stick around long enough to make a difference.

Cons: * You can't be promoted within a team unless someone else is punished (I believe they lose their annual bonus, or it's greatly reduced). * The Medicaid org is a cash cow for the enterprise – it's a 'boiler room'. It lacks tools, budget, and talent to flourish. * So much mediocrity. So few in IT are engaged. We are still in the caveman days of getting devs to consistently use source control. The vast majority of QA 'testers' don't know a lick of code and inspect everything manually. * Though layoffs are often a good (albeit painful) thing for both sides, for some reason I was sad to see that 30-year reputation washed away in 2023. I guess it was just a 'neat' thing in this day and age.

Medicaid.org runs at startup pace with Fortune 4 weight

Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee

September 22, 2023

Pros: Some opportunity to learn and grow in tech stack knowledge. Work-life balance can be very good. Remote work was a cultural norm until after the pandemic; then the tide reversed a bit. Pay can be okay, but only if you jump around or negotiate hard upon hire. Otherwise, it's dismal for the effort expectations. In the prior 30 years, there had never been general layoffs. Some genuinely amazing people to work with, though few of them stick around long enough to make a difference.

Cons: * You can't be promoted within a team unless someone else is punished (I believe they lose their annual bonus, or it's greatly reduced). * The Medicaid org is a cash cow for the enterprise – it's a 'boiler room'. It lacks tools, budget, and talent to flourish. * So much mediocrity. So few in IT are engaged. We are still in the caveman days of getting devs to consistently use source control. The vast majority of QA 'testers' don't know a lick of code and inspect everything manually. * Though layoffs are often a good (albeit painful) thing for both sides, for some reason I was sad to see that 30-year reputation washed away in 2023. I guess it was just a 'neat' thing in this day and age.

Large company with many different groups

Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee

February 4, 2020

Pros: Great people to work with.

Cons: The business side of the company is sometimes not qualified to make appropriate decisions, as there are many cancelled projects.

Large company with many different groups

Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee

February 4, 2020

Pros: Great people to work with.

Cons: The business side of the company is sometimes not qualified to make appropriate decisions, as there are many cancelled projects.

A decent place to work, but not very tech-focused

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

November 11, 2025

Pros: I worked with some great people.

Cons: They're moving in the wrong direction with tech decisions, pushing forward quickly with little regard for quality or long-term thinking. Lots of mobile engineers work too much -- nights and weekends, even. This makes little sense since you can't quickly push a production fix to the App Store or Play Store; there's a whole review process that slows things down. So working production support over a weekend as a mobile engineer makes zero sense.

A decent place to work, but not very tech-focused

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

November 11, 2025

Pros: I worked with some great people.

Cons: They're moving in the wrong direction with tech decisions, pushing forward quickly with little regard for quality or long-term thinking. Lots of mobile engineers work too much -- nights and weekends, even. This makes little sense since you can't quickly push a production fix to the App Store or Play Store; there's a whole review process that slows things down. So working production support over a weekend as a mobile engineer makes zero sense.

Medicaid.org runs at startup pace with Fortune 4 weight

Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee

September 22, 2023

Pros: Some opportunity to learn and grow in tech stack knowledge. Work-life balance can be very good. Remote work was a cultural norm until after the pandemic; then the tide reversed a bit. Pay can be okay, but only if you jump around or negotiate hard upon hire. Otherwise, it's dismal for the effort expectations. In the prior 30 years, there had never been general layoffs. Some genuinely amazing people to work with, though few of them stick around long enough to make a difference.

Cons: * You can't be promoted within a team unless someone else is punished (I believe they lose their annual bonus, or it's greatly reduced). * The Medicaid org is a cash cow for the enterprise – it's a 'boiler room'. It lacks tools, budget, and talent to flourish. * So much mediocrity. So few in IT are engaged. We are still in the caveman days of getting devs to consistently use source control. The vast majority of QA 'testers' don't know a lick of code and inspect everything manually. * Though layoffs are often a good (albeit painful) thing for both sides, for some reason I was sad to see that 30-year reputation washed away in 2023. I guess it was just a 'neat' thing in this day and age.

3.0
Medicaid.org runs at startup pace with Fortune 4 weight
Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee
September 22, 2023
Pros: Some opportunity to learn and grow in tech stack knowledge. Work-life balance can be very good. Remote work was a cultural norm until after the pandemic; then the tide reversed a bit. Pay can be okay, but only if you jump around or negotiate hard upon hire. Otherwise, it's dismal for the effort expectations. In the prior 30 years, there had never been general layoffs. Some genuinely amazing people to work with, though few of them stick around long enough to make a difference.
Cons: * You can't be promoted within a team unless someone else is punished (I believe they lose their annual bonus, or it's greatly reduced). * The Medicaid org is a cash cow for the enterprise – it's a 'boiler room'. It lacks tools, budget, and talent to flourish. * So much mediocrity. So few in IT are engaged. We are still in the caveman days of getting devs to consistently use source control. The vast majority of QA 'testers' don't know a lick of code and inspect everything manually. * Though layoffs are often a good (albeit painful) thing for both sides, for some reason I was sad to see that 30-year reputation washed away in 2023. I guess it was just a 'neat' thing in this day and age.

Large company with many different groups

Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee

February 4, 2020

Pros: Great people to work with.

Cons: The business side of the company is sometimes not qualified to make appropriate decisions, as there are many cancelled projects.

3.0
Large company with many different groups
Applications Development Advisor • Current Employee
February 4, 2020
Pros: Great people to work with.
Cons: The business side of the company is sometimes not qualified to make appropriate decisions, as there are many cancelled projects.

A decent place to work, but not very tech-focused

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

November 11, 2025

Pros: I worked with some great people.

Cons: They're moving in the wrong direction with tech decisions, pushing forward quickly with little regard for quality or long-term thinking. Lots of mobile engineers work too much -- nights and weekends, even. This makes little sense since you can't quickly push a production fix to the App Store or Play Store; there's a whole review process that slows things down. So working production support over a weekend as a mobile engineer makes zero sense.

3.0
A decent place to work, but not very tech-focused
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
November 11, 2025
Pros: I worked with some great people.
Cons: They're moving in the wrong direction with tech decisions, pushing forward quickly with little regard for quality or long-term thinking. Lots of mobile engineers work too much -- nights and weekends, even. This makes little sense since you can't quickly push a production fix to the App Store or Play Store; there's a whole review process that slows things down. So working production support over a weekend as a mobile engineer makes zero sense.

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