Laid Off While Doing 2 Roles | Paid for One - Project Manager Optum Employee Review

1.0
18 Jul 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits and nice coffee machine

Cons

Long time for minimal raise. Got laid off even though I was in two seperate roles (without additional pay). The company didn't even know I was part of another role/team and were a whole day late to invited me to our team meeting where the team was cut. I regret giving them 7 years of my life. I regret barely being able to afford to live all these years and having nothing to show for it. I hope they get sued to oblivion.

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5.0
25 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great Pay. Great Benefits. Great People. awesome front line management. Frequent meals and employee input.

Cons

Worked like a cog machine.

3.0
4 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some very talented people give so much of themselves to the company, the clients and their co-workers. I work with (and have worked with) some excellent, smart, supportive people.

Cons

Too many layoffs. Upper management is clueless about how the day to day work gets done, what it takes to make certain changes to processes, and how to treat employees. Some are great. Mostly, they just look at numbers. So many of us have been doing our jobs long enough to know what is needed for certain requests. But we don't get a voice. We just have to do it and suck it up. They are firing ('reduction in force') all of the seasoned staff and let the rest deal with the fall-out. So many teams are losing good people but those people are training their off-shore replacements before they are told about being cut. So how is that a reduction in force? It's just a reduction in payroll numbers. Everyone is on edge just waiting for the next axe to fall. And we have to try and learn or teach another role with less experienced people and more work. It's crazy. On milestone anniversaries, they send an email recognition but once the milestone gets to over 15 years, you are a target. Pay and benefits are fine by me. Raises are practically non-existent, even after layoffs and asking employees to take on more responsibility. that's messed up. They talk about work/life balance but that doesn't trickle down to the actual workers who are so stressed they fear for their jobs if they don't do the extra mile. Many of us are just hanging on instead of quitting so we can at least get some severance. Others are actively looking.

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