Optum reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(15,599 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 15,599 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
Nov 29, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Company cares a lot about their employees work-life balance. They match up to like 6% of 401K, take full advantage of the money on the table. If you put forth the effort you will be promoted. Management encourages personal development and wants to see employees rise. There are skip level meetings, which is great so that upper level management has a chance to get to know you and mentor you. You are recognized by your colleagues, as well, management readily gives Bravos for excelling in task. This may come in the form of monetary benefit, corp merch, and almost always recognition throughout the company. They value health and fitness. They love individuals that volunteer within their communities, Of course we want to make the world a better place than how we found it, if you don't know where to start, they spotlight opportunities in your area. Utilize all those employee benefits and bonuses. You literally can have the company pay for your healthcare expense if you participate in a few activities throughout the year. Besides, the offerings are endless, choose what best suits you.

Cons

The remote work is limited. Pay is okay, unfortunately with the rising cost of living, it could be better. Sometimes, ambiguities arise, but this is an opportunity to show upper level that you can overcome challenges in innovative ways.

1.0
Nov 20, 2024

AbleTo

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I gained additional experience in the use of CBT and some mindfulness based grounding techniques.

Cons

Top down environment where concerns were minimized. Heavy caseload expectation with no time carved out for breaks. Cheap laptops issued for remote work that required me to purchase my own expensive mouse (out of pocket) to make it more functional. No reimbursements for out of pocket expenses necessary to do the job (that weren't provided by the company). The structure of the therapy was too manualized and cookie cutter. Poor management. Sick time is not separated from PTO time.

2.0
Nov 4, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from Home Pockets of excellence across OSHS Talented Peers Some*** excellent managers My current manager is absolutely phenomonal.

Cons

Wow, Pretty much everything else. Overall management from the Csuite level down in OSHS is a quagmire of stratospheric egos, toxic leadership, and condescending attitudes. There is no true long term strategy. Leadership lacks vision, props up silos rather than breaks them down, and is the main barrier or bottleneck to progress and continuous improvement. You will receive minimal or no training to do your job, tools and resources are subpar if you're even lucky enough to gain access to them, and you will experience toxic leadership behaviors such as favortism, micromanagement, lack of communication, clarity, direction, or alignment to company goals. In short, this lack of direction will make you constantly second guess yourself, the micromanagement will irritate you as layers of red tape get in your way from actually being able to get your job done, and the condescending attitudes and language will make you angry as people who have been at the company for eons act as if you're stupid for not acquiring knowledge by osmosis in a severely siloed and fractured environment, while completely unaware that other industries and companies have progressed their technology and tools/resources past the 90s. The same ten people are recognized in town halls/all hands meetings, one of which has shown extremely problematic and toxic behaviors that haven't ever been addressed. Projects are picked based on vanity of leaders, some projects have no discernible return on investment, and don't offer any value to the rest of the organization, in fact they distract from core duties: mismanagement of funds and resources at its finest. Wonder why healthcare is so expensive,,, especially in government contracting? It's because we have incompetent leaders making poor decisions at the helm.

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