Optum reviews

-The IT arm of the company now feels completely managed by finance people, who are cutting funding for and knee-capping innovation, hardening, and refactoring efforts -Management/leadership has absolutely degraded enormously the past several years - there is tangible feel that executive focus has shifted away from their employees and "doing what is right/best" to "doing what makes the most money". -Salary increases and RRP have continued to be a disappointment even when overperforming set goals (based more on feeling/nepotism than merit/value add) - barely seeing more than 1-4%. -Management and leadership does not appreciate or actively encourage process improvement, employee development/training, nor team building. Often they are active blockers to it - immediately dismissing or sabotaging efforts. Despite employee surveys and feedback for change, action is not taken and instead we are given an excuse (with little to no justification) or it is ignored in hopes that it just "goes away"

Morale has significantly waned since Optum Technology revoked ALL telecommuting in February-2019, and they require you to report into the office your team is located (not necessarily the closest office). Insult to injury, they are remodeling most locations to agile/open/free space (Google space) so nothing but open tables with no assigned desks, which is very noisy and distracting. Lot of hypocrisy, different rules for management.