A close coworker of mine committed suicide a few months ago. I took leave and upon returning was immediately put on a PIP during the week of my return as I was not “meeting output expectations anymore”.
They will expect 40 hours in the beginning, and then it’s quickly expected you work up to 60 in order to keep up with customer demands. They’ll present you with nonsense platitudes like “you can say no if you’re overwhelmed!” and "we care about you", I still have friends there pulling 60 hour weeks because their AM is incompetent and their TL doesn't care. Epic does not care about you. If you are clearly smart and capable, they will take advantage of that and pair you with a poor AM, and you will be expected to carry the entire workload as a < 6month tenure employee. Epic is only concerned with squeezing 45+ hours of dedicated work from you until you inevitably burn out and quit. They continuously do this because they know they can.
Upper-level management has archaic attitudes towards work productivity and introduce asinine policies for the sake of policy. Just look on Reddit for their disastrous Covid-19 and inclement weather response. It is a company that has somehow convinced hardworking, smart, talented individuals to stay for a free international trip every 5 years, a luxury that is accessible to literally any other tech worker in America.
