UnitedHealth Group reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(15,438 total reviews)

Stephen Hemsley

43% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

UnitedHealth Group has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 15,438 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UnitedHealth Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.5 stars).

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15K reviews
2.0
Sep 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good pay - Good PTO - Some good people

Cons

- No culture, most people won't even make eye contact with as when you walk past them in the office, let alone say hi - Nobody seems really passionate about their work - No incentive for doing good work as a lower level employee

1.0
Aug 4, 2017

EAP Counselor

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hiring process was reasonably fast and efficient. Some managers are human, but are not allowed to show much of that at work. Pay was acceptable at first glance.

Cons

Benefits were terrible, perhaps the worst I've seen in any company. For starters, you could only choose United Health's medical plan, and the company didn't cover much of the cost of being on their lousy plan anyway. Inhumane and demoralizing working conditions for all EAP Counselors in SF office, new and veteran alike, and a stunning lack of humanity when it comes to how this company treats these counselors/specialists who tirelessly and compassionately work the lines day-in and day-out without sufficient time off these lines (even to use the toilet!). No real support from management either, but rather "coaching" functioning mainly to criticize and demoralize even the most seasoned and skilled counselor or specialist. I've never seen a less compassionate company, or more unhappy coworkers, anywhere! All who work there in SF seem either to leave in frustration, stay too long until they develop mental health problems themselves perhaps because they have no choice or can't see beyond this company, and yet all are somehow changed for the worse by the deplorable working conditions. No real rest breaks or not even a real "30-minute" lunch (more like 25 minutes as they nickel and dime you at every turn), nor ANY time to meet with colleagues off the lines (breaks are scheduled) to debrief or chat about something other than work; the "decompression room" I never saw used probably because there is no time allowed for it, little to no support from management whom I'm certain have even bigger managers breathing down their necks all day, too. No ergonomics at all, even when you ask more than once based on medical need. Bottom line: If you're seeking to be a small cog in a huge machine where seemingly arbitrary metrics/analytics from a handful of non-clinicians' business decisions ultimately override sound clinical judgment and basic human decency, then this is the place for you!

1.0
Dec 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The members are generally nice to work with and help but focus on number, calls, production makes making a difference difficult. Your co-workers will feel your pain of micromanagement but it is hard to get to know them as socializing discouraged.

Cons

Do not necessarily believe what you are told when hired. Every minute is counted, doesn't matter if a top performer or not your raise is pitiful and bonus sad meanwhile salary and compensation over 14 million for CEO and big bucks for those at the top. Questioning is not encouraged, communication top down, creativity stifled, HR/UHC recruiters blowing smoke on this site. Expect end of summer manager niceties and just when you think culture will improve everything will be worse than before once the Vital Signs are over. Employee and member's personal information is being sent to other countries as are American jobs.

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