Optum reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(3,326 total reviews)

Patrick Conway

50% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

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1.0
Feb 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Starting salary, even though they took it away within less than 3 months of being employed

Cons

pay poor onboarding poor structure and support team doesn’t know a lot of answers constant change

3.0
Feb 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

decent pay flexible nothing else really

Cons

it really depends on where you work and who your management is. Optum seems to be doing a lot of layoffs

3.0
Feb 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The job was once great. Lots of schedule flexibility with the option to select the days you wanted to work. Independence is good for people that are not interested in the oppressive micromanagement of hospital or clinic work

Cons

There has been a steady trend towards increasing productivity by any means necessary. Scheduling patients and optimizing time in the field has always been a struggle. However their new “balanced capacity” has been a major challenge making schedules a lot heavier and missing the mark. You have provider overlap and there have been times you run into situations with two separate providers in a home-regularly. Salary used to be competitive but sadly isn’t anymore.

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