Epic reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(6,056 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

69% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Epic has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,056 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Epic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jul 17, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Growing company -Great out of college starting pay -401K -Nice campus, food, break rooms

Cons

-Work life balance is bad--each night expect to get at least a dozen new emails. Most Epic employees only have other Epic employees as friends. Heading out involves drinking and complaining about how much stress their customers and management are placing on them. -So many internal processes and documents, etc. Often the changes required by customers are not difficult and not particularly creative, but a matter of mastering the vast jungle of Epic jargon. -No more "Research & Development days". These have been eliminated for TS. -After training, they drop you off a cliff before you are actually capable of helping customers. -Unclear advice from more experienced staff, who seem irritated by follow-up questions, which take more time away from their workload. -Everybody is evaluating you. Anyone you have interactions with--your team lead, your mentor, your office mate, the other TS you asked for help. -50+ hours per week if you want to stay on par. They'll advertise 40-45, but this is a function of how they log hours internally, which doesn't account for walking between buildings for meetings, and because most employees don't log all the time they spend emailing or performing other administrative tasks. (You literally have to log not just your hours for each day, but a breakdown of how you spend those hours.)

1.0
Jul 14, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The campus is breathtaking. The cafeteria is amazing, and ridiculously inexpensive for such awesome food. Great benefits, especially health insurance (which covers you from your first day of employment, none of this "90 days" crap. There are some AMAZING benefits that I've never seen anywhere, like a paid sabbatical (under certain conditions they will even pay for your travel and lodging, such as doing charitable work or going to a country you've never been to), as well as matching 401k and generous stock options. The problem is, you have to stick around for at least FIVE years for any of this stuff to kick in, which is exceedingly difficult for all but a few employees.

Cons

There are only a few levels of management between you and the top, which they tout as a good thing, but really all it means is that if you haven't been there for a decade there's zero chance of you getting promoted beyond anything more than team lead (which is one of those "more work for no more pay and no better title" sort of positions). They have absolutely no concern for your quality of life, just how much of your personal time you're willing to devote to the company with little in return. The general expectation is that you work a minimum of 60 hours a week, travelling frequently (even if you're in a non-travel position, such as programmer) and not even get compensated for weekend travel days. And God help you if you have a complaint or conflict with management, I went to HR to request a transfer to a different division due to severe personality conflict with my new manager (after my old manager got sick of things and left the company). There are literally dozens of interchangeable divisions in the company to which you are just randomly assigned when you're hired. Yet rather than deal with my request with discretion, like I requested, they went straight to the manager and told him everything about my complaint. Ultimately this led to him putting me on "probation" despite the fact that I did not have any previous disciplinary action or performance issues. Realizing there would never be a resolution that benefited me, I chose a severance package in lieu of probation and left, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

4.0
Jul 9, 2012

Good place to work

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* Great campus -- it's sure no cubical farm where you could be working * Fun and smart people * Rewarding work (it's not always fun, but rarely are jobs always fun) * Good competitive pay * Some roles travel a lot, others don't

Cons

* Process can get in the way but it's not too bad. It's a big company that needs to sell products and make money, so everything can't be free form and up to the individual. It's challenging building enterprise class applications. If you didn't know that going in, you weren't paying attention. * Campus isn't growing fast enough to accomodate the new employees * All of the healthcare knowledge can make your head spin * too many meetings in some roles -- people forget how to get things done without a meeting some days. * Some roles travel a lot, some don't.

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