UnitedHealth Group Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"It's a challenging environment using multiple versions of SQL Server at multiple locations."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The interview was a phone conversation, followed by an in-person interview with the first manager (later changed)."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"Management changed. New management 'took over' before assessing what was already there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management should perform 'due diligence' before announcing sweeping IT changes to everyone."

"Generally quite positive. but not earth shattering."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I like the decent benefits and work flexibility. Many people can work from home or the office."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be patient. They are very slow when bringing people on-board."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"Almost all co-workers, team members, and managers are not co-located but work out of home or different offices. This made building good relationships difficult and achieving milestones difficult due to communication challenges."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Put less effort on achieving financial goals and more emphasis on developing a strong work environment. That results in higher productivity and will improve the financial results."

"It was a great learning experience."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"It's a great working environment with supportive colleagues. I like having the ability to make decisions for the business without much interference."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be candid and confident about what you have done in your past experience."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"The growth in the company was limited and did not match my expectations."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Streamline the growth path for the employees and improve the business processes."

"Don't plan on making a career with them; they will close offices on a whim."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"401k is pretty good along with the employee stock purchase. Vision and health benefits are good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"UHG wants the individual to learn it their way. Don't plan on making this employer a career, but it's a good way to gain experience. If you are already experienced, look elsewhere, because they have a way of getting rid of individuals the longer they are with the organization."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"Dental benefits are very limited. Trying to get an answer to a question may result in four different answers. Internal systems are not consistent. There is always a work-around for a new application (system). They never seem to be done right the first time. Systems are slow to be updated, and everything is a patchwork of band-aids on top of band-aids. Employee reference systems (for customer service) have the public face: everything is nice and neat. But work-arounds don't seem to get published in the reference system. You have to save emails on what the current work-around is because the job aid is wrong. There is a HUGE focus on money and productivity, which conflicts with the system issues. Recently, jobs never feel stable, and offices are opened and closed routinely for no apparent reason other than to shake things up The result is long-standing employees with a lot of knowledge are lost or leave because of a lack of stability. Many leaders have no sense of how to accomplish the task they are leading, resulting in a warped sense of what is possible. Leaders don't want to hear what's needed to help improve. They just want to know how it can be done cheaper. HR is a joke (outsourced, of course) and doesn't really follow through on company rhetoric. (harassment, age discrimination, gender bias, etc.)"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make the focus again about caring for the members, and allow employees the time and good tools (without the 10 or 15 work arounds) to accomplish the task. If you continue to outsource so much, you will never get a quality product. Every vendor says they can do it better and cheaper, but look at how many customers you have lost with each and every vendor. Every leader (and I mean every) should be expected to perform the tasks they are managing (annually). It would keep the directors, managers, etc., realistic about what is possible, and where the true challenges are."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"The people at the company are great to work with, day in day out. The company's IT wing gets a lot of attention from the board."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared to show that you can adapt to different environments/projects/people easily."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"A lot of restructuring happens in the company quite often."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't restructure very often. It disrupts the team dynamics and efficiency."

"It was very good to work with UHG on latest healthcare applications."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I like the work environment and culture. My co-workers are of great support at personal and professional levels."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know more on what the organization expects from you as an employee."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I dislike the lack of growth opportunities. Work credibility and visibility as a contractor is limited."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management is good, except that decisions need to be informed in advance."

"I learned a great deal and am looking to leverage my skill at my next opportunity."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I like the flexibility in the working environment, and the up-to-date tools and hardware."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself. Do not lie about anything, as background checks are extensive."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"It is hard to navigate internal procedures and systems. There is little documentation, and web locations change without notice."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fix M&A activity systems integration. Many newly-purchased companies take years to update to common network."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"Culture and executive management are extremely efficient at creating value."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be professional, serious, and formal. Be prepared with information on the company. Good luck!"

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I dislike the impersonal, formal work environment. There are few advancement opportunities, due to continuous cost-management focus."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Create better promotion opportunities for existing employees, as well as better medical benefits."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I like the role, responsibilities, and challenges of the position."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's a great company with great people, but you have to LOVE what you do, because moving up or outward is hard to do."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"There is no growth opportunity within the company unless you know the right people."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There should be more support and encouragement for employees to grow within the company."

"It was challenging; I was given the opportunity to have my first supervisory position."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I liked my co-workers, manager, colleagues, developing new skills, and creating new workflow processes."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Keep your resume updated, and dress professionally for every interview meeting that you may have."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I had a contract position, which ended after 12 months. I was hoping to be kept on as a regular employee."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Evaluate business areas in need of valuable skills from contractors or temporary employees, before releasing from assignments."

"Stable and pleasing."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I liked the people, the focus and the team, and the purpose of our role to our customer."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, answer questions clearly, and emphasize how you handle conflict and what you bring personally to the table."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"Growth was limited, meetings seemed unproductive, and I felt we could have performed better for our customer."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Training is great, but should be practiced and implemented better. Don't just listen to staff, but actually implement good ideas and suggestions."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I like having the ability to prioritize as I see fit, and the degree of autonomy I have to make decisions on how to approach tasks."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Aim high. If you can get into the company in your ideal position, do it. If not, you can take a lesser position, but it will take years to get to a decent place, and you might burn out before you ever get there."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"Although I'm not overly micromanaged in my position, many positions there are. The whole company is an orgy of micromanagement and senseless data mining without regard for the context or methodology that produced the information."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Somehow find a way to make the company less of a mess, and improve communication between all the disparate cells of the business."

"UnitedHealth Group is a great company with excellent pay and benefits, and good work/life balance."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"I like the good salary/bonus, great work life balance, and telecommute opportunities."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just be honest and positive during the interview."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"There is not enough growth opportunity in all areas within the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management needs to be transparent in communicating with employees."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"Benefits and paycheck are decent. Teammates are good. The office is nice."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be enthusiastic if you want the job, but don't expect a lot to change once you do have it."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"There isn't enough room to grow and provide myself with new challenges."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. Probably, they should work more closely with the government to try and maximize the regulation changes."

What do you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"They don't just talk the talk on work/life balance; they actually walk the walk. The scale of projects and the work is exciting."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The culture of the company and the culture of your individual department will likely be vastly different. Probe on the culture of the department, because that will be the most important."

What don't you like about working at UnitedHealth Group?

"We've moved much too slowly on the integration of the Optum businesses. We've done things out of order, and that meant that good people have lost faith and started to leave."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The speed at which we execute is too slow. There's too much red tape to get things done, especially around procurement and IT. Would love to see us lead out and be more generous with benefits beyond just PTO."