CVS Caremark Reviews

Pros

Flexible schedule
Great Co-workers
Career advancements available

Cons

Positve remarks always follwed by a negative
Physically demanding
Not enough payroll to staff stores

Advice to Senior Management

Better recognition to their employees

Pros

Marketing power and share of market

Cons

Time off opportunity pharmacist spend too much time making phone calls and answering the phone vs having more time to interact with in store customers

Advice to Senior Management

More fill in pharmacist give us more time to develop patient relationships

Pros

It's an interesting job. I like working with the patients. It can be very rewarding at times. The day moves quickly because there's always work to do.

Cons

Sometimes the other technicians are, unfortunately, very hard to work with. I've experienced lots of drama in both stores that I've worked in.

Advice to Senior Management

Definitely would like more feedback on how I am doing. Management never gives me a review or anything similar to a review. The pharmacists are good about telling me when I do a good job.

Pros

Good Pay, Run your box without a lot of upper mgmt issues

Cons

work way to hard, physical and mental stress. Physical work kills your body, no social life, they expect you to put in 60-75 hrs a week.

Advice to Senior Management

Beware!

Pros

The employees provide a great work atmosphere.

Cons

When working at CVS you must always meet the customer's satisfaction.

Pros

Experience if interested in becoming pharmacist
One to one interaction

Cons

Low pay,Cranky customers, No benefits

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees better

Pros

Good people, decent hours and very flexible. Most of the people that are working there are really working there till they find something else they like to do.

Cons

The job in itself wasn't very challenging. Most of the work required basic skills and the management seemed to just meander by.

Advice to Senior Management

I really don' t have any advice for the management of CVS. It is what it is and the people who work there know what they're getting.

Pros

Increase knowledge in the drug and health field
Co-workers
Flexiable hours
Ability to work at other stores if your store does not have hours
Fast paced environment

Cons

Ignorant customers who are rude on top of their ignorance
Employees who just don't care
Training on the unnecessary and not on the necessary

Advice to Senior Management

Revised training on new comers
More hours to complete necessary tasks

Pros

The people that have been there the longest.

Cons

Persons with experience in history with the PBM not valued. Pushed to the limit to perform your tasks as well as others laid off. Hiring new, inexperienced a month after laying off whole offices. It is all about the money, but they are losing knowledge that in the end would save money.

Advice to Senior Management

Value long time employees and make the time to recognize them with promotions. Value management so they will value their employees. It starts at the TOP!

Pros

you get to ,learn about policies and laws on medical and with management experience .they have phase 1 and phase 2 programs to be a store manager, but you need to be good in your job to complete this,cvs hold you extremely accountable for laws, ex if you have baby formula and customer buys it and it's past the sell date , and you as manager whether store mgr . asst you can get fired.this is a law and customers can sue you. As for the other things as out dated milk you get a warning if sold, but cvs has strict policies for baby formula ect sold that's out dated .

Cons

10 hour days, put up with supervisors from a- c position who act like this is their first retail job, and maybe so but some things as helping a customer or cleaning up the store should be normal working habits.you deal with planograms and new sales/old . flyer s stuff that you don't have enough of.ect. (get ready their more to deal with-PRESSURE

Advice to Senior Management

work hard study all policies and don't read things in a minute you have to retain alot of policies
that they give you and they are modules that you should be printing and studying,and always
practice what you preach in your own work habits. store mgrs and asm you lead.