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      Optum

      Engaged Employer

      Optum reviews

      3.4

      55% would recommend to a friend

      (15,599 total reviews)

      Patrick Conway

      47% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      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).

      Reviews by job title

      16K reviews
      4.0
      Jul 17, 2019

      Lots of great learning experiences

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Healthcare Tech is an interesting as well as challenging area to be in. With many new innovations trying to integrate themselves into older legacy infrastructure that exists in an older dependent industry. Great place to learn and apply a bunch of skills.

      Cons

      If your good at putting out fires, or ramping things up quickly to prove points. You can get shuffled from fire to fire till its fixed. While it keeps things interesting for the short term, slowly it can wear on you.

      2.0
      Jul 17, 2019

      Outpatient behavioral health care advocate

      Care advocate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Able to work from home

      Cons

      Full time work doing utilization reviews for routine outpatient psychotherapy. 20% of all review must be referred to a 'higher level review' which is code for denying ongoing outpatient therapy. If you don't refer 20% of cases for those higher level reviews or 'peer reviews' you won't be meeting your metrics and could be let go. The whole department is a scam. It's meant to 'offer savings' to employers who offer Optum to their employees, but really it's a way to deny outpatient therapy to members to put more money in the CEO's pocket.

      4.0
      Jul 16, 2019

      Big Company

      Associate software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lot of internal job postings since it's a big company, many offices around US so if you are willing to relocate you got many options. Generally people don't feel overworked. There is a nice break room with ping-pong. You can work from home. Very good 401k match, good employee stock purchase plan program.

      Cons

      Computers are very locked down. Social Media, YouTube, gmail and other non-office mail servers are blocked from the office network.

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