Pros
- Very good food (not free though) - Lots of ownership opportunities - good insurance - you get to wear many hats (you are the PM, designer, etc of your projects) - lots of autonomy in your work - immersion trips to meet customers are rewarding
Cons
- Pay is not competitive given that so many other large tech companies allow remote work. If you're smart enough to get into Epic, you can get into a better company. - Tech stack and infrastructure is terrible and not keen on improving (internal frameworks which are a nightmare to work with, tedious to work on) - Internal tools are frustrating to use and terrible overall - WLB is variable but typically bad - Nearly everyone was a direct hire from college, so you'll be managed and mentored by people with no industry experience (blind leading the blind) - 401k match is mediocre - mediocre vacation time and sick time - toxic culture, stressful - overly aggressive deadlines - upper management is out of touch with the current environment and is falling behind (no remote work, old fashioned values, etc.) - encourages people who rate the company positively on internal surveys to post reviews here, padding the stats - not a pleasant place to be if you are a minority - stack ranking / rank-and-yank / PIP culture like Amazon - the longer you stay and the better you perform, the more work they give you (intending to burn you out) - bad COVID response - management processes are not transparent - actively suppresses workers rights in the Supreme Court (see Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis) - some coworkers are unpleasant to work with and have limited soft skills I deeply regret staying for as long as I did. I should have left after a couple of years for a proper tech company.
