Epic reviews

There is a lot of travel, so it's hard to settle into a normal pattern when you're in Madison. Don't expect to take classes or join a league that plays every Tuesday night. You're going to work a lot. The average person in implementation / project management works more than 50 hours per week. Many - including me - work more than 60 hours per week. Then again, I choose a lot of the work I do because I enjoy it- I could cut back and get by just fine by doing less. Managers are young. They are usually talented and mostly the right people, but I often wish they had a little more experience first.

1. No such thing as a promotion, period. 2. Career growth is very limited. 3. Role change (in between TS, IS and R&D) is almost impossible, irrespective of your educational qualifications. Even lateral movement (across teams) has been getting harder and harder due to general resistance to team changes from team leads. 4. Pay raises are determined rather mysteriously and are, many times, simply inexplicable. Management usually has NO REAL answers regarding how you were appraised, and how exactly that appraisal translated to the pay raise you ended up with. 5. Horrible non-compete clauses in the contract that greatly restrict your options after leaving the company. 6. Evaluation for any management position is often based purely on the time logged in the time logging system. This often leads to much more experienced people ending up reporting to someone with little experience (typically one or two years). 7. Little or no mentoring and guidance beyond the initial 3 month period. 8. Work-life Balance has been bad for many, and recently it has been getting worse by the MONTH! 9. Employee retention policy is shockingly absent. 10. Madison is seriously over-rated, especially if you are in IT and if you are someone who believes in looking for better and better opportunities and career growth. There are many other cities that offer a decent quality of life, and in addition, much better IT opportunities, and a more vibrant, diverse environment.