Part of Beaver Medical/EPIC Management in Redlands, CA, we were bought up by Optum and integrated (more like decimated) back in December 2022.
I was in IT and as soon as we were integrated, a hiring freeze was put in place and has been in place ever since. 4 rounds of layoffs (throughout Optum and our specific CDO) have occurred since then, one in March, one in August, one in September, and one just recently in November of 2023.
I saw the writing on the wall and left of my own accord back in June before I got caught in the layoffs as I saw no future with this evil company. Speaking specifically about IT, with a hiring freeze and continued layoffs, no positions are getting backfilled, not even with contractors anymore, my suspicion is they’re hoping IT people leave through attrition with the long term plan being fully outsourcing IT, probably offshore from what I’m seeing as more offshore contractors are brought in.
Had the company not been bought out by Optum, I probably would still be there a,one with many of my colleagues. But alas, this is a warning that if your org is getting acquired by Optum, run and don’t look back. Their slogan is “We Care”, what a joke, more like “We Don’t Care.”