Was laid off - Pharmacy Technician Optum Employee Review

3.0
Jan 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company has so much potential and tons of employees that are willing to help them get there. They offer tons of employee programs and offer great benefits.

Cons

Be prepared to swift and change every quarter. The company changes its mind on the drop of a dime. They've done several layoffs and will continue to do more. They say they redeploy candidates back into the workforce. However it's not as true as they make is seem. In their layoffs they have lost phenomenonal employees and could careless. Also during layoffs they treat you like a nuisance and something to be rid of.

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Work from home - no travel

Cons

Pay is not competitive- compared to many

3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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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