Epic reviews

--There's no way to sugar coat it - Epic has a severely outdated/obscure tech stack. If you are in a technical role (e.g. software development) your skills will not transfer well, and you will basically start from square 1 elsewhere unless you spend significant time outside of work keeping up on modern software engineering trends and developing your own projects. MUMPS and VB6 are desired by virtually zero other companies nationwide, so it may be challenging to find a new job at similar seniority/pay level depending how long you stick around at Epic. Even Hyperspace Web(if you're lucky enough to work on it) is getting outdated at this point, and in using it you really don't learn how web development works, but rather how to use Epic's homebrew framework for interfacing a web application with MUMPS/Cache'. Altogether, you get a high starting salary but it's kind of a "golden handcuffs" situation (which is totally fine if you intend to stay at Epic for the long haul, but understand that risk going in). --Poor software development processes - the codebase has very low (<5%?) unit test coverage. Developers do not unit test their code and it shows with how frequently regressions are introduced. The company spends a huge amount of development and testing resources fixing/testing bugs and retrofitting those fixes to prior releases where our customers were hurting. At times this was >75% of our day-to-day in R&D, stressful and no fun for anyone. It's a far cry from a CI/CD environment. --2 weeks vacation for first handful of years is pretty weak in the tech space these days --No ability to work from home (outside of some travelling/customer-focused roles). It's hard to see that changing with how heavily Epic invested into its campus. It was often painful trying to get in and out of campus along with 10,000 other employees. --Log your time in 15 minute increments, on average work 45+ hours per week, with some weeks spiking up to 50-60. Overall, work-life balance is subpar and a common complaint. --Too much time spent on documentation/red tape, part of which may be a necessary part of the healthcare IT space but often felt due to lack of trust by upper management.

Working at Epic means dealing with a constant stream of manufactured crises. You'll be constantly asked to do extra work when the team gets behind schedule (which is always). It will never be considered the managers' fault that the team is behind schedule, and you won't get any thanks for the extra work you do to help the team get back on track. And they are very quick to threaten to fire you if you, say, only work late two nights in a week where your co-workers work four. Oh, and don't believe their nonsense about being a employee-friendly environment. Sure, there's weird art everywhere, but you'll get bored of that by about day three on the job. Epic is the furthest thing from an employee-friendly environment. They are currently going to the Supreme Court to preserve their ability toremove their employees' fundamental worker protections: the ability join class action lawsuits (Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis).