It’s a telemarketing sweat shop - Scheduling Coordinator Optum Employee Review

2.0
Nov 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They offer great benefits, ie dental, vision, medical, life insurance etc

Cons

Outbound cold calling members of the company offering a visit where a Nurse is sent to their home. Aggressive micromanagement. No room for growth. The metrics are almost impossible to obtain. They don’t care that you are a human and not a machine. The calls are literally back to back, no breaks in between. Sometimes before you can even take a breath from hanging up with one call, the next is coming in (no exaggeration—-it’s BACKTOBACK) and you have to answer within ONE literal second or QA will dock you. The script is tedious and you have to stick to that script or QA will dock you. This job isn’t about assisting the members it’s about how much visit you can schedule, because if you don’t schedule a certain amount of visits you’ll be placed on a PIP, if you receive under a 96% on QA…you’ll be placed on a PIP, if your ACW average isn’t below 1:30 (one minute and 30 seconds for the MONTH) you’ll be placed on a PIP. It’s where your sanity comes to die. The members are rightfully frustrated because strangers are calling them offering a service that they declined multiple times, but the company doesn’t care…we’re gonna call them back in two days; so they curse you out, call you names and you’re supposed to sit there and accept it….and then move on to the next call. it’s ridiculous, it’s daunting and it’s a little inhumane.

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Cons

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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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