Epic Software Developer reviews

- Have to exclusively work with old, outdated, and highly in-house-customized tech stacks and tooling - Lack of growth of transferrable skills - Learning plateaus very quickly (within a year or two at most) with most of that learning being healthcare domain knowledge in any case - Developers are required to do all foundational user research and design work (though without being given access to real users to actually do any of that, so it ends up just becoming guesswork that's squabbled over internally with a veneer of being "user-centered")

Minor technical gripes: they're transitioning from a truly archaic stack and very little of the knowledge you gain working at Epic will be transferable to other jobs The bigger issue: in the face of the covid-19 pandemic, upper management initially resisted the call for remote work, then eventually caved and allowed most of its 10,000 employee campus to work from home. What followed was a 6-month gaslighting campaign as management repeatedly told employees that our "culture" was in danger, they had data suggesting it was safe to return to in-person work, and that working from the office would have no adverse affects on community health. The plan to return to campus in August 2020 had to be prevented by the county health department, and was only called off at 11:30 PM the night before employees were due to return en masse. It is clear to me that upper management does not prioritize the health of its employees and community above perceived threats to productivity and "culture".