Optum·Software Engineer

Optum Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a coding-heavy interview path where the questions leaned toward core computer science topics and what I’d written on my resume.

One coding round included heap and dynamic programming-style questions, and the rest of the technical questions covered basic OOP along with things related to the Java work I’d described.

During my session, there was also emphasis on the database side—SQL questions came up as well. The interviewer made it a point to focus on fundamentals rather than just surface-level answers, and the questions felt like they were testing whether I could reason through solutions, not just recite definitions.

I ended up getting an offer, and what made the experience feel workable was that the interviewers

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