Optum reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(15,605 total reviews)

Patrick Conway

47% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Optum has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 15,605 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
3.0
Mar 20, 2026

Definitely not a place to build a career

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Pros

The culture is generally ok and there are remote positions available if you are in a non-clinic role. Work is not particularly demanding, though not stimulating either. Compensation is not bad if you were hired in the past 3 years.

Cons

Oof. I was from a company that integrated with UHG/Optum. Since then it's been non-stop rolling layoffs since day 1. Constant re-orgs and leadership changes to adapt to, along with chronic figuring out who got laid off and who is your next POC. It's a culture of efficiency and cost cutting. Right now they are streamlining executive leadership and strategy comes from a high Optum Health level, meaning that you're just executing your day to day work and reporting into the mothership if you are an executive level. It's hard to consider a career when you could be called into a layoff meeting at any time.

3.0
Mar 20, 2026

N/A

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Pros

good team and good people

Cons

bad onboarding process and interview process

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