Epic Software Developer reviews

Experience largely depends on your manager and his/her manager - some teams have reasonable expectations for work load, others do not. Its easy to find yourself overwhelmed. Epic's response to typically to blame poor time management on your part. Software is fragile and poorly designed. This is partly because of the programming languages (a lot of MUMPS and VB6). Its also partly because Epic's developers, while generally very bright, aren't very experienced (and often don't even have a background in software development). So you end up with this immense code base filled with "newbie" mistakes - poor design decisions, no documentation, subtle but dangerous bugs. Its very difficult to be productive and innovative when this is what you have the work with. Don't expect to grow as a software developer at Epic. Our end users don't really like our software, and resent having to use it. Epic's only pays lip service to addressing any of these concerns. Company culture is weird - a lot of corporate naivete and arrogance. Generally treat employees like children - you'll feel like your back in middle school.

* Poor Morale - There is high turnover for implementation due to the workloads and people not knowing how to manage their time. This bleeds to other areas of the company. * VB6 - Enough said * Managers - Some managers are better than others. I've had fantastic ones, and I've had mediocre ones. * Winter is coming * "Stock Options" are a joke (vest after 5 years, only get appreciation rights) * They've been improving in processes but expect some new hurdle to jump through every couple of months to get your work done. It sucks, but some do actually work. A stupid one recently was a metric to get development into QA within 10 days of it being marked as complete. I've had logs where the quickest that was possible would be 100 hours of linear time.