Epic reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(6,041 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 6,041 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Sep 11, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good pay (only increased recently after a number of employees left the company), good benefits and nothing more.

Cons

Very bad work life balance. Basically, they want you to program in Mumps because that is what the system is built on. However much you slog and work hard, once you decide to leave the company, you are pretty much done. Just forget about working for any other customer of Epic. They have these stupid non-compete agreements and secretly enforce them and prevent any clients from hiring you. You work in a packaged world and when you come out, you will have to work extra hard trying to adapt to working in other technologies that are not relevant. Just take your talents some where else and utilize them properly. You can however still get into the Epic world (if only about money) by trying to get into healthcare IT who have Epic software and slowly entering into the Epic implementations by taking certifications. Here again, if you take certifications with one employer, you cannot jump to another employer easily, otherwise, Epic will 'blacklist' you. Stay away if you can. My colleagues are struggling to get out but they have to consider getting other employment once they come out. Some are on H-1B visas since Epic only sponsors in EB-3 so that you are stuck here for the next 20 years and slog here without any future outside.

1.0
Aug 2, 2012

software developer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good pay for fresh at midwest area

Cons

As a software company, nobody care about the IT skills, as long as they keep making money they don't care any new technologies which is really bad for developers. The system is heavily rely on VB6 and cache which is used no where outside the few healthcare IT companies.

1.0
Jul 14, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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.

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