Optum·Cloud Engineer

Optum Cloud Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I had a technical screen where the focus immediately felt infrastructure-heavy.

I answered networking questions written out on a whiteboard, and the conversation also touched Terraform by asking me to read through some Terraform code. The written-out networking part was high level rather than deep troubleshooting, but it still made me think carefully about how I was explaining things.

The next round dug deeper technically. It was described to me as longer and more detailed, and the whole vibe felt more like a careful assessment of how I reasoned than just a quick quiz. I ended up speaking with more than one person during the process, including someone in a

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