Epic reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(6,055 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 6,055 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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1.0
Mar 10, 2014

Soul-sucking.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Interesting campus, fantastic food for cheap, VERY smart co-workers, software is incredible (if extremely complex); wildly successful corporation

Cons

Rarely is one's best work considered good enough. There is always fault to be found. Never before have I heard these phrases uttered so often: leadership by fear, viper pit, thrown under the bus, cover your ass, fly under the radar. The "Judy spotlight" is dreadful and should be avoided at all costs. I arrived at Epic with a ton of experience and high performance ratings. I worked hard. I was engaged and contributed. I succeed at several significant projects where my predecessors has struggled. I was one of the few people who could survive "Judy review" on the first pass. My family life suffered because I was working all the time. I left feeling like I was worthless.

3.0
Mar 8, 2014

Software Developer

Recommend
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Pros

Very competitive salary, other benefits are average Most coworkers are very bright, friendly and helpful Health care IT has the potential to be very interesting and rewarding Its not the evil empire. For all its faults, Epic does have a lot of good things to offer.

Cons

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.

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