Optum-UHG Interview Experience | On-Campus 2021
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There was 3 rounds in total.Round 1 (Written Test): It had MCQ and 1 coding question . MCQ's were based on Computer Science Fundamentals and aptitude. and coding question ...
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There was 3 rounds in total. Round 1 (Written Test): It had MCQ and 1 coding question . MCQ's were based on Computer Science Fundamentals and aptitude. and coding question was based on DP. After test was over, it showed percentage scored. Round 2 (Technical Interview): Interviewer was really Friendly and cool. It started with normal conversation like tell me about yourself. Where you based and all. And then he asked me :- DSA question: Buy and sell Stock , first he asked approach and then was asked to write the complete optimized code. He test it on multiple test cases. Overall he wanted to test whether my code was covering all the test cases or not. Core Subject Related question like OOPS, DBMS. It's completely depends on the interviewer what he/she is going to ask. There was only one Interviewer. I was asked to code but some other candidates was not asked to code, for them it was only projects and core subjects or basics of DSA. So be ready with your basics or whatever you have mentioned in your Resume. Round 3 (HR): It was over phone call and was very Basic , asked to introduction, extra curricular Activities, location preference and how was your technical interview round. Finally Result Came and I was Selected.
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This is a candidate experience report from a united health interview for a swe role during the phone screen round reported in 2022.
It covers the following topics: Dynamic Programming .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at United Health. LeakCode aggregates interview reports from 10+ sources, including 1Point3Acres, Glassdoor, LeetCode Discuss, Blind, Reddit, Indeed, and Nowcoder. Each report is translated where necessary, deduplicated against existing entries, and tagged by company, role, round type, and reporting date.
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For broader preparation context, the United Health interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a 4-5 round on-site loop covering coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral. Reports tagged on LeakCode show the round-by-round distribution and typical difficulty calibration. To browse questions filtered by round type and seniority, use the company hub linked above.
How To Practice This Type of Question
Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months. The exact wording of any given question may have been retired by the time you interview. Focus your prep on the pattern, not the specific problem. The patterns that appear in United Health reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
During Your United Health Round
Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in United Health reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.