Epic Software Developer reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(953 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

77% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Epic with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 953 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Epic is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jun 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I have been here for less than 2 months. From what I hear they cover more than 50% of US population and moving international fast. I might be jumping the gun. But here z my first impression. - You are surrounded by extremely smart people. I feel I am amongst the best crowd yet. - Company takes great care of employees and attends to their needs. - You actually do Software development no just blind programming. You get yourself involved in most aspects of s/w devlpmnt including Design, Review, QA meetings, client interactions, and client visits etc very early - Great Campus n Food , n individual Office Space (maybe shared with another but spacious enough) Cool Office spaces with well stocked Break room. I have a large table n chair and a beautifull office room for my creativity. -One of the coolest campuses you will ever see - Moving outside US and gaining some Big clients internationally - A well planned training program (though necessary I feel its slightly intensive. But I am paid well , so shouldn complain) - I feel the s/w does actually help people and affects them directly in a better way. So u end up doing something good for society - I feel the developers are passionate about their job, else the s/w cant be doing this good - Supports many noble social activities

Cons

Not without any cons : - Uses VB. But they are migrating into .Net. Actually almost half of my batch are not trained in VB, but in .Net , Apps etc. - Training is intensive I must say. - The s/w is primarily in VB although transition to WEb in .net is happening fast. -Expected to learn fast in training.

2.0
Jun 20, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great job right out of college, pay and benefits are great. Fun and creative work environment with some of the smartest co-workers around.

Cons

To someone who has never had another job after college the long hours and high stress with little support start to seem normal. Epic will admit that they aren't in the business of growing their employees so if you make one mistake you'll quickly find yourself on their bad side and out the door soon after that. Middle management is a joke, your boss is usually someone who was promoted because he or she was best at following orders and his or her only training in management was a couple books from their reading list. For that reason it's luck of the draw whether you will succeed there since this is the person in charge of determining your worth as an employee. To make matters worse, Epic says that it will invest in your training, but that investment turns out to be the bare minimum necessary which is not nearly enough when you are tossed into the deep end of your projects. From a developer's standpoint, the company is kind of a mess. The primary languages you'll be using are VB6 and Cache, both of which stopped being marketable ten years ago. If you're lucky like I was you'll get to work in the new C# framework, which is nice but because it's so new even the basic parts of it are bug-ridden and help can be hard to find. Finally "software must work" is one of the cornerstones of development philosophy at Epic, but it so often doesn't. The complexity in possible configurations of the software combined with the lack of time and real clinical workflow experience on the part of the QA team means that bugs are often uncaught until some customer finds them which piles more work on your plate. Your biggest mistake at Epic would be to take the job without having a plan of escape.

4.0
Jun 7, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Smaller teams - Can control your own growth rate - Big projects early on, but apt QA makes sure you don't release buggy system - Core software, not web, which is a good thing for me. You have to consider communication between different versions, data migration etc. Interesting challenges. - Extremely complex system with thousands of configurations, requires clever thinking to solve problems - No stupid SQL queries, never understood why people liked them - Excellent in-house bug tracking system - Demands hard-working and smart people, if you are not then you WILL get fired - Excellent culture of Staff Meetings, kind of shows that CEO still cares about her minion workforce haha. I like them.

Cons

- Everything depends on your manager, if he is a sadist you are screwed - I feel Software Devs should have more say in general functionality - Some teams still use VB6, most have moved to C# - Too many people to talk to, approvals needed, I guess they need to maintain standards, but sometimes simple things can take time - Does not care about industry trends such as new technologies etc. Although recent efforts show a wave of change. - Lots of old code - Huge learning curve due to extremely complex software - If you are stuck working with VB6 then career opportunities are 0. I believe Cache is still useful because it is a neat NoSQL language and what's important is critical thinking not the language, but there is no hope with VB6.

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