I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at CVS Health (New York, NY) in Feb 2025
Interview
First round was an online assessment on statistics, SQL and Python. Statistics MCQs were moderate level. SQL was easy - 3 DML +2 DDL questions. Python section had 2 questions that needed me to code 2 ML techniques from scratch using numpy.
Next round was live coding with a Data Scientist from the company who was very nice. There were 4 SQL questions which were ridiculously tough to solve within the timeframe. The first question required multiple CTEs, joins, subqueries, window functions, union, aggregation and all the other formulas there are. The questions after that just increased in difficulty. The interviewer felt bad for me and asked me to just write pseudo code because we were going out of time. Next the python section was moderate and I got all of them done and ended with a few behaviour questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Statistical distributions based on a case study scenario
The phone screen was surprisingly in-depth, lasting about 40 minutes and focusing heavily on real-world applications of data science. We discussed model development, particularly for predicting hospital readmissions, which was quite challenging. I had just practiced a similar scenario on PracHub that mirrored this section almost flawlessly. Following this, I went through a technical round where I tackled questions on feature engineering and demographic fairness. Ultimately, I received an offer but decided to decline it after weighing my options.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you build a model to predict 30-day hospital readmission risk for chronic patients? Walk through your feature engineering using claims and prescription data, model selection tradeoffs (logistic regression vs gradient boosting given explainability requirements for healthcare), how you'd handle class imbalance (around 10% readmission rate), and how you'd evaluate fairness across demographic groups before deployment.
Easy Chill, comfortable, wasnt difficult, more on health and pharmacy stuff,
Interview was friednly and accommodating, overall i would say good experince, the process was smooth, But applied with out reffereal
I applied online. I interviewed at CVS Health in Mar 2026
Interview
Interestingly, the first round was with AVP, and he discussed many mathematical concepts.. The second and third rounds were on the same day, for coding and case study. One week later was VP interview with behaviors.