Epic reviews

For a lot of jobs at Epic, the hours can be long. I work 40-50 hours most weeks, but put in a week of 60 or more a few times a year. The management structure is very flat, so if a title and concomitant underlings means more to you than more abstract respect and responsibilities, it might not be what you're looking for. Unless you're a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or rockstar software developer, you probably won't get hired too easily if you're over 30. Verona and Madison are not middle of nowhere by any means, but they're not huge bustling centers either.

1. Vacation time is below average -- 2 weeks/year until 2 years at the company, then 3 weeks/year. 2. Depending on your application, role and "team lead" (your boss, basically), you may be working 40 hours a week or you may be working 60 hours a week. 3. Middle management, for the most part, is not very understanding of a life outside of epic. I have had four different TLs in my time here. Two were great about balancing a work-social life, and two were the complete opposite. From what I have heard in talks with coworkers, I am lucky to have found two that were good about it. 4. The upper management (Division Managers) micro manage. Often times it is over ridiculous things, too. 5. Judy works routinely works 70+ hour weeks, which sounds good on the surface, but it has really, in my opinion, made her lose touch with reality and realize not everyone wants to spend every day at Epic working like she does. The culture tries to brainwash you into wanting to work absurd hours. 6. There is no compensation for working said absurd hours. At best, you get a good work coupon for a free cookie. At worst, your work will break the ancient code and you will spend many hours fixing it. 7. The code is ancient. Very buggy and not modular at all. Instead of working on fixes or modularity, they just throw more enhancements on top of the already shaky framework.