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Trying to make the jump to senior level, or at least get a measurable bump in pay. I'm already treated like a senior on my team for better and worse and wouldnlike to get paid for it, plus get out of a shitshow company. Applied and interviewed for a senior postion at Optum. 1 round after the recruiter call with 3 team members. They have almost the exact tech stack so it'd need zero ramp up time. We just talked about system design, performance tweaks, architecture desicions, so trivia on the stuff: kafka pub sub vs. streams, etc. Went for about 90 min, didn't actually think it was a tech or final round but told i would have an offer coming in a day or 2. Supposedly i applied to a g28 position, that was also reiterated in the interview that is was a "senior" position. Recruiter called and said the manager "didn't have any current g28 open slots", but knew i was looking for around 150-180k-ish. She said she'd go back and see if a role can be found or some shit. Wat. Also she was weirdly apologetic. Nbd here, this was a throwaway anyway as a study for bigger places. Pass YOE: 5 Offer: 120k 7.5% bonus No rsu Like 3 more days pto than kohls Current TC: 123k (including 10% bonus, could go up to 15) No rsu #optum #unitedhealthcare #kohls
Yea what the other poster said is right. Titles are massively inflated at Optum. G28 is 'senior'. But most of the company is G28 imo. G28 is the work horse. There are very few people on higher or lower levels -G27, G29, G30 etc. Target at least G29. They tend to have 'Lead' in the job title. So Lead Software Engineer instead of Senior Software Engineer The downside is that there are much less openings for G29, G30 and above compared to G28
Good decision. I left optum a few years ago. I was making 128 which I understand is the top of g28. Also 10 percent bonus but at the end of the year they generally only award 50 percent of your bonus potential if that. If you do circle back to optum try to apply for architect positions. They are equal to senior in most other orgs and are typically g30 positions so have the pay your looking for plus RSU. And most of the architect positions are hands on so not a typical architecture job. Optums tech teams are not great as a whole (always exceptions) due to the low pay and massive offshoring. A senior position at Optum is like a intermediate / high junior somewhere else.
Other than base do they offer bonus and RSU? Do they offer to all g28?
They can rarely offer G28 RSU but it’s extremely rare and usually done as a retention measure. Even then it’s barely worth the effort, it usually like 10k over x years (total not per year) Optum usually have a 10 percent bonus target (or more depending on band) but what they don’t tell you is unlike other companies they don’t fund the full bonus. Everywhere else I’ve ever worked if my target bonus is 10 percent I’ve gotta. 10 percent as long as I meet or exceed on my review. At Optum you get a percentage of the target so my last year there even though I exceeded on my review I only got around 4 percent because that’s all optum funded. For me, my insurance was about 125 less per paycheck and I got a 50kish raise going to another healthcare company. The real decent money at Optum starts around g31. Anything below that and you are getting VASTLY underpaid for a SWE