Q&A With UnitedHealth Group Employees

Standard benefits. 401k opportunities.

Yes but only for new hires.

Set up a diversity program that is honestly diverse and not just provides lip service as so many of them seem to do.

STAND BY OUR MISSION and CULTURE STATEMENTS and not veer from them like I see happening all too frequently. Gets worse as be get bigger instead of getting better. Very sad. I used to be so proud of working here but as more time goes by the less proud I am and thinking of moving to a competitor who has head hunted to seek me out via my networking sites. I'm giving my current employer six months and if things don't improve, I speak out, then I'll be leaving to go to our biggest competitor.

Beleaguered. Not an easy work environment.

My coworkers make work such a pleasure and I love that they all genuinely care that everyone is successful.

Business dress.

Business attire

Business formal

needs to come down from the clouds where the real folks reside.

Not highly - needs to keep his word and live the mission, culture and values. Everyone else would then follow suit

I cannot speak to this as I have not had any exposure to the CEO as of yet.

Teamwork is stressed and each person is given the ability to recognize each other when they go out of their way to help.

None. Sterile and non-communicative work environment.

I think it depends on the department you work in. I moved from an Associate Role to Analyst Role in IT in a year and a half. I feel like people in IT get promoted regularly.

Often.

Rarely

Business Attire

Dress for an interview. This isn't a startup.

Business Casual would be acceptable.

Optum has some really talented people with some very good ideas. Most of those ideas are stifled by a senior management team that can't or won't enable them.

Very, they have some very cool and interesting tech.

They still think Cloud is the next big thing...

better than most

Employees accrue vacation/sick time to use as needed. They also offer eight paid holidays through out the year.

great work life balance unless you are a projecet manager. during peak project season there is nothing by work.

work from home for a large portion of the staff

Negative, people don't look up or smile when you pass them....just sad

Moral is poor

Depends on if you have the skills for the job.

Hard

There is a significant gap between VP and below.

Relationships.

Computers

adaptablity. I need to be able to change quickly based on business need.

Communication

Be a sales person

You need to have good boundaries; if you work 40 hours a week they'll give you 50 hours of work. If you then start working 50 hours of work they'll give you 60. You also need to be respectful of the people you work with; your colleagues are all over the world, in a whole bunch of different situations, and almost all of them are just trying to feed their families. They're people, not rungs on a ladder.

Better vision. Offer education training that isn’t in the form of a learnsource

It'd be pretty neat if a subsidiary of a health insurance company offered decent health insurance.

Employees constantly complain about compensation and benefits on the annual employee survey, so maybe good benefits in general?

1 hour

Several hours if group interview. Usually 3-4..

Random - 10 minutes to 30 minutes

situational specific based, task based, experience based

Not the right ones as the individuals hired makes you ask "How on earth did they get this position" from Peers all the way up to Sr. Leadership

Community & State growing the fastest. Employer & Individual have major difficulties. Too many to list.

Medicaid has difficulty in Texas.

potential for advancement

Lately, nothing sadly.

The diversity and ability to make an at-scale impact in the healthcare market. Tons of exciting things going on that have high propensity to make the health system work better for the whole system.

You earn PTO for hours worked.

business casual

Business dress when dealing with customers.

Standard.

Sad

Relationships.

Communication