New here, what is the company’s reputation about laying off engineers?
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To all the sore losers who think engineers are optional first off your jealousy is evident secondly you most certainly have no f—ing idea how the systems work- the company literally runs on engineers and the engineers at CVS are grossly underpaid- and extremely hard to replace- the most stupid thing they can do is to start laying off the brain.
@1nkw+1u26fjb5 Why are they waiting till October? All the signs pointed to everything going down right now. Was there some kind of holdup/snafu in corporate?
The vast amount of those to be let go will be Aetna Health, it’s already been decided up top. Layoffs/firings begin October 1st.
Cognizant employees safe
not my hcb team. engineers are understaffed. remote hiring for more is priority. manager said sign on bonus likely for hire
Enough of the Engineers. Obviously, they are home, time on their hands and clueless.
The company has 3 main business fields.
First there is CVS Stores which are retail pharmacy. Here pharmacists and store workers are the majority of people.
Second there is the PBM as in Caremark which manages the pharmacy business of its customers. A mix of customer support, pharmacists, sales and finance people.
Third is Aetna which is an insurer. Customer support, sales, finance, and people to support that business.
Engineers are not what the business is about. They are back office people who keep some systems running And the good news is all the groups are working to move most of those systems off to be run by outsource vendors. The reason is people realize how worthless they are.
Not a day too soon we can say GOOD BYE TO THE ENGINEER!
Engineers declared safe as essential workers. They just gave me another raise yesterday afternoon and I didn’t even want it!
In DDAT it wasn't a ton last year but seniors got hit the hardest. If you're a mid-level or junior and productive but feel you're underpaid you deserve better but are more likely to make it. They also sacrificed the QE department and agile/scrum but engineers not too many honestly. I still think since that's all that's left you may see 1 or 2 engineers hit at most per team assuming they don't cancel initiatives or projects. But I feel this time they are siding on cancelling projects. "We have to figure out which work we don't need to do" or whatever Karen said. Lots of projects prettying up cvs.com, valuable work don't get me wrong but they could keep some apps ugly but functional. CVS has a duty to make things disability accessible as they should and get hit by government fines if they don't so that's part of needing to update apps or keep them current.
Anyway this layoff forum was likely never a good source of info but now it just straight up isn't. You'll hear about layoffs when people actually have severance agreements in hand.
No exceptions or safe positions during massive lay off