Optum reviews

The company has become more like the corporate medicine they eschewed as it has grown larger. They've acquired multiple smaller health care entities and unapologetically take away the best things about what made those small companies desirable. The management claims employees can speak freely about challenges in their jobs, but nobody does anymore because they've witnessed many attempts at discussion being shot down. Management is 'do as I say, not as I do' and treats professional staff like uneducated, faceless worker bees. They praise themselves for the smallest of positive behaviors toward staff who are out in the community earning their salaries for them.

micro managing "people leaders" who go against the tone set by the CEO. They don't assume good intent or follow the corporate values. They gossip, and play favorites and people who don't "fit in" are excluded from promotions and pay rises. Silos are very much in place across the org making it extremely difficult to get info needed to do job. silent and immediate layoffs are widespread, they trump up ways to fire people to avoid paying severance. 100% of business decisions are made to keep the stock price, and also their bonuses, high....the executives don't care at all about the members, the clients, the workers...