Good Career Builder - Software Engineer Optum Employee Review

4.0
24 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

GREAT company culture and good people. As a programmer there's a lot of work that one can engage in all across the stack and get good experience in frontend and backend work as well as DevOps. Also if anyone is looking to learn about FHIR and healthcare standards they will find it here. Also lots of Java, JavaScript, Jenkins (CI/CD), Docker, Kubernetes.

Cons

Some teams I've been on have been pretty contractor heavy so there's differences in process that come into the workflow (not necessarily a con but a thing to note). Also if anyone is not interested in the healthcare tech industry they might not find the content super interesting/engaging. Software development is unaffected by that fact as it still is development but the extra push by being proud of the product and what it does may not be present (although it has the possibility to be found if your product helps people have better experiences in healthcare).

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5.0
22 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of benefits, lots of incredibly smart team members, rewarding work

Cons

Large organization that moves slowly, lots of processes that need to be refreshed

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1.0
1 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Difficult to say many positives, as most of the current field staff has either resigned or currently interviewing for other positions.

Cons

Office management, upper management within the company leave staff with unfulfilled promises, ineffective communication, lack of response to questions and concerns that staff members ask on a weekly basis. This office has such high turnover with obvious lack of concern by any of the higher ups within LHC group, Optum, Amedisys. These 3 companies are merging or UHC is purchasing- upper management is unable or unwilling to share exact plans which has been adding to overall anxiety, uncertainty within this office. As staff we continue to be told ‘just hang tight, things will get better’.

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