Epic reviews

1. No such thing as a promotion, period. 2. Career growth is very limited. 3. Role change (in between TS, IS and R&D) is almost impossible, irrespective of your educational qualifications. Even lateral movement (across teams) has been getting harder and harder due to general resistance to team changes from team leads. 4. Pay raises are determined rather mysteriously and are, many times, simply inexplicable. Management usually has NO REAL answers regarding how you were appraised, and how exactly that appraisal translated to the pay raise you ended up with. 5. Horrible non-compete clauses in the contract that greatly restrict your options after leaving the company. 6. Evaluation for any management position is often based purely on the time logged in the time logging system. This often leads to much more experienced people ending up reporting to someone with little experience (typically one or two years). 7. Little or no mentoring and guidance beyond the initial 3 month period. 8. Work-life Balance has been bad for many, and recently it has been getting worse by the MONTH! 9. Employee retention policy is shockingly absent. 10. Madison is seriously over-rated, especially if you are in IT and if you are someone who believes in looking for better and better opportunities and career growth. There are many other cities that offer a decent quality of life, and in addition, much better IT opportunities, and a more vibrant, diverse environment.

Feedback isn't always shared with you yet your TL will make assumptions and judgments about you based on that feedback What makes you a "good fit" for the company is subjective and hidden behind a veil of secrecy You are expected to know what you don't know you don't know. TLs don't understand that your experience isbased on the type of instal you do. They expect you to know everything or you are under a watch status in their eyes. Too much micro-management in some areas. How many reports do you have to write that cover the same thing? If you are not successful in your current role, there is no way to transition to another role that may be a better fit for you. Company views its employees as disposable entities. They would rather get rid of someone that is performing at an okay level than try to work with that person to make them better. There is no strength building at this company unless you are lucky to get a great TL. Once your TL has you pegged as "not a good fit", there is no recovering from that. They want you to be good at project management and interact well with the customers...but they also want you to be a TS as well. There is no room for the person who is better at PM than at program configuration.