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Made it through the full Cigna loop for a Healthcare Operations role, here's what I saw

nonprofit_nia · 4 replies

Just finished a 4-round process for a Healthcare Operations Program Manager role at Cigna. Took about five weeks start to finish.

Round 1 was a 30-minute recruiter screen. Pretty standard, but the recruiter was organized and actually told me what the next steps would be, which was a relief.

Round 2 was a 45-minute call with the hiring manager. More behavioral than I expected. Questions focused on managing cross-functional initiatives and working with regulated teams. She asked one specific thing: "Tell me about a time you had to align stakeholders who had different compliance requirements." That told me a lot about the culture.

Round 3 was a written case. They gave me 48 hours to respond to a scenario about health program rollout, member engagement metrics, and cost efficiency. I spent about 3 hours on it. They wanted a structured recommendation with tradeoffs, not a polished deck.

Round 4 was a panel with three people: the hiring manager again, a peer, and someone from the analytics team. All behavioral. They went deep on follow-ups, so have second and third layers in your examples ready.

Offer came 10 days after round 4. The comp was in line with what the recruiter mentioned early, which I appreciated.

For me coming from a nonprofit background, the healthcare mission framing helped a lot. Being able to say "I care about health outcomes" with real evidence landed better than I expected in a large corporate setting.

4 replies

pm_priya

the 48-hour written case is the one that trips people up. you basically have to self-impose a time box or you will spend 12 hours on it and overshoot the brief. they want structured thinking, not a 20-page analysis.

nonprofit_nia

exactly this. my first draft was 8 pages. i cut it to 4. they actually commented positively on the conciseness in the panel.

ops_omar

the stakeholder alignment question is everywhere in healthcare/insurance orgs. if you don't have a healthcare-specific story ready, a heavily regulated fintech example can work, just name the compliance parallel explicitly.

recruiter_rita

5 weeks is about right for this level at Cigna. i've seen it stretch to 7 when panels can't find a common time slot. don't read anything into it if it runs long.