Epic reviews

- 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.

Upper management is completely out of touch with reality. The highest positions are held by type A zealots who can't fathom that everyone doesn't place work above everything else in their life. If you're good at your job, management will absolutely take advantage. They tell you to learn to say no, but say no too much and you get a reputation for being difficult or unhelpful - never mind the fact that you've already been putting in 60-hour weeks yet feel like you can't give adequate attention to all the many responsibilities you've already said yes to. Rankings, which determine raises and whether certain opportunities are available to you, are incredibly subjective. Many team leads aren't great people managers (and aren't taught to be), and the metrics for evaluating performance can be all over the place. Their internal response to the COVID pandemic has been an absolute joke. They're willing to risk the health and safety of their employees and the community for the sake of preserving Epic's "culture," which loosely translates to "whatever Judy wants."