CVS Health

CVS offers many opportunities for professional growth because it is an incredibly challenging, impossibly compartmentalized enterprise.

Hustle culture is too prominent. Salaried workers are expected to sacrifice work-life balance regularly, and the compensation does not reflect any appreciation for it.

Senior Aetna people have been pushed out of the organization, leaving a lack of business and technical domain acumen across all areas. The push is to trade experienced people for those with the latest buzzword skill areas, and it's not working because of the complexity of the business model.

The combination of turnover in executive leadership roles and siloed perspectives of business leaders creates frustration. Even if you design the perfect solution for the problem at hand, it will be unlikely to be funded until it's watered down and carved into an opportunistic niche that meets the needs of the specific business requestor, because conflicting leaders do not agree to split costs of solutions that deliver common value to several areas.

Finish the reorganization efforts to transition funding models to align with actual products in true agile fashion rather than using pseudo 'value stream' buckets for projects that masquerade as value streams. Work to retain valuable workers, and stop trading experience for buzzword skills.