Optum reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(15,524 total reviews)

Patrick Conway

46% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Optum has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 15,524 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optum employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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16K reviews
4.0
Jan 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are some amazing teams here doing really good things. Wanna learn cloud computing? We got that here. Web dev? We got it. APIs? That's here, too. Open source tools are encouraged, there are resources for continued education through conferences and company-paid online courses, and lots of opportunity to grow. This is a good place to start if you are coming straight out of college and don't quite have a real niche yet.

Cons

Be warned: there are some seriously awful teams too. Engineers that can't build anything without a vendor holding their hand, managers that think tech debt is more of a suggestion than a real concern -- real "we use email as our version control" level incompetence. Other random problems in no particular order: Things are painfully corporate. Compensation is highly variable, some people can end up WAY underpaid after final placement. There's a real possibility they'll stick someone with a CS degree in business roles or salesforce, which is a fate truly worse than death. The tech presentations with the most buzzwords draw the biggest audiences, and the TDP program requires a certain number of hours in continued ed so get ready to have linear algebra 101 explained poorly to you at one point or another.

4.0
Jan 26, 2019

Resolving analyst

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Healthy Atmosphere, friendly natured people around

Cons

As of now I don't find such

1.0
Jan 25, 2019

I hope you will have a better experience than me

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good co-workers. Management is highly technical.

Cons

Lack of leadership skills and passive aggressive behavior from management. Low moral. Low likelihood of receiving full bonus potential. Employees are talked down too often.

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