I have been at Optum for 8 years. I love my team. I had a really great Manager until they brought in a Design guy who was some influencer. This dude was an a-s clown.. The problem was not him, it was leadership above him. They wanted to bring in someone who would “shake things up”.. Well, they did. He was a train wreck. Since then things have gone down hill. Our leadership acts and has the intelligence of a JV squad at a community college. They make cr-p decisions, they tell us to embrace AI and then don't give us money to get tools that use AI. We are led by fools and mo--ns. I have been waiting for this RIF for at least a year. Happy it is finally here. I no longer need to worry if it is gonna happen to me or when. I wish all the employees well, I wish leadership to get a clue. Last person off site.. Make sure to turn off the lights (or get someone from India to do it). After all… Thats where all the work is going.. Bye for now :-)
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@cs I agree. Worked here 20 years. Wasted all those years I could’ve been learning a different job, now I’m waiting to be laid off. No skills along with me being older, I am going to have a really hard time finding another job. I wasted most of my working life w this company . Pretty much ruined
Work here at your own mental and physical health risk. Also, massive financial risk due to layoffs galore.
I worked there for 17 years. Well, the entire senior (high paid) team members were all laid off, making for massive SME debt. But, they just don’t care.
Work here at you and your families own risk.
Got Muta'd?
I struggle to see how this place stays in the F50 by 2030. The MA plan golden goose is dead. They claimed this was the year of Optum and now constantly fire the senior non-exec leadership, lay off all the experienced staff, have people working their biggest accounts and contract negotiations who are CLUELESS and letting the customers get whatever they want in the deals and then setting them sometimes for 2-3 years of Optum basically making no $.
This is the cost of weak executive leadership. Instead of being the year of Optum it truly feels like probably one of the last years Optum is around. I have not seen so many payers fire us or consulting customers refuse our RFPs as I have since September.
Congrats! It felt like a relief to me, to be honest. Onward and upward!
@OP So true, clueless managers. No kidding. Have had like 12 or more managers in over 14 years. Everyone except for 2 were deranged, and so full of themselves. Borderline psychotic. The last one would type out emails all in caps stating that the work had to be completed by 5 pm. She send this out at 2pm. Most of the staff was gone by 2pm. Kept saying good job, like good boy. Had survey results showing team was actually burned out. They keep these people around. No clue how to build a team. Actually blamed the team for their burnout.