Optum·Software Engineer

Optum Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call where we talked through what I was doing, my stack, and what I wanted next, I got a technical phone screen with a senior engineer a few days later.

The call started with a coding problem centered on string manipulation, and once I finished that, we moved into Java concurrency and Spring Boot internals. It felt fairly structured, and I left the screen feeling like the conversation matched the kind of work I’d done before.

A few days after that, I went into a virtual onsite that ran as four rounds across a single day. The first was a system design discussion where I designed a scalable order management service using event-driven patterns with Kafka. Next was a deep dive into React and Next.js, covering rendering choices, state management,

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