Optum reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(15,537 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 15,537 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 Cuidados de saúde industry (3.4 stars).

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16K reviews
1.0
Mar 27, 2023

HR Nightmare

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Optum and UHG have great benefits

Cons

Avoid Enterprise Information Security (a part of Optum Technology) at all costs! I’ve worked in Fortune 50s for most of my 25+ year career and never have I encountered a work environment and management structure as crooked and unethical as what has been happening over the last year+ in Optum’s Enterprise Information Security. Instability, ethics reviews and suspect patterns of hiring and promotion have become the norm. The Whistle Blower protections in this group are nonexistent. **Note to Security and Tech hiring managers - this group has serious talent, many of which - especially women and individuals of color - are or will be looking.

1.0
Mar 19, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

They will let you up to go to restroom for 15 minutes twice in an 9 hour day, if it is convenient for them.

Cons

Most horrific group of managers who have been there forever and for fun pick on the abc care advocates. If you need off for an emergency, forget it. You sit at desk 9 hours with 30 min lunch and two breaks and they call when you are gone to make sure you are not a second late. You cannot take a rest or break ever because they monitor you every second IF you are on the phone with a client too long, they will send texts saying your are over the time. To stressful

2.0
Jan 10, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is on par with most other call center jobs Work From Home Extra money is thrown on during mandatory OT Voluntary Time Off when it's not busy Company paid internet for work and nice computer set up

Cons

Typical call center just looking for bodies to fill seats Micromanaged especially with the sentiment score which is questionable in itself as it's a artificial algorithm More than half of training class has already quit Health Benefits are horrible considering it's owned by United Health Group Training is horrible it might as well not even exist, you learn very little to nothing except for 6 weeks of looking at outdated PDF's and slides nearly two weeks of that is just tech issues and things not related to the job at all. You will receive 10 different answers on the simplest things which should be standard operating procedures. Knowledge Base articles are horribly written and designed Client procedure documents/information is often missing or so vague you have no clue what is going on with that plan Claim they want you to just take care of the member but then start messaging you to hurry up on a call Confusing Mail Order system which should be a straight forward process instead of attempting to guess what needs to be done Internal departments can be very rude when reaching out for assistance List goes on...

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