Optum Developer reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,159 total reviews)

Patrick Conway

65% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Developer employees have rated Optum with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,159 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Optum is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Gesundheitswesen industry (3.4 stars).

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1.0
May 21, 2026

Don't join

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Pros

No pros..shinking ship.. don't join

Cons

All cons..toxic..no growth..no salary.. don't join

1.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The pay started off well for my experience level.

Cons

Terrible leadership decisions. They aim for quickness, not long term scalability and robustness in testing. Often disorganized, missing feature requirements, and cutting QA. They are trying to lead heavy into automation. They have developers wear too many hats - acting as QA, doing Mobile dev, Web dev, and automation for both (playwright) and [appium]. All of this causes a slowness, as the repos are constantly changing and we have to deal with setup issues constantly as we switch between web and mobile and automation - and on top of that, Login always has issues so we are often blocked. This is the slowest development process I have been a part of, despite their insistence on forcing us to adopt AI. They are cutting QA, cutting devs, cutting as much as possible and are very much a top-down, do not listen to the engineers sort of organization. Highly disprove, run away. Oh, also, despite being promised a promotion for last 3 years, I haven't been given one, and the raises have been bare minimum - with last year having no raise at all. Could not disapprove more.

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