Epic reviews

If you're _not_ young and just out of college, you might feel out of place among all these younger people. Finding colleagues your age might be a bit more difficult, in this case. They ask long hours of their project management staff, and while that is to be expected to some degree, they can really pile on at times (we give a lot of support to our customers, and it requires more manpower than we are sometimes equipped to give). If you're a developer, you have to work in VB6 and MUMPS; the latter especially could lead to career road blocks later, not to mention being incredibly frustrating, since MUMPS is a typeless language, does not ignore whitespace, and has little to no error handling. On a benefits note, the 401k contribution isn't fully vested for two years, which could be a little annoying. Perhaps the most annoying is that since Judy absolutely refuses to open Epic's financials to the SEC, the number of equity stakeholders is capped at 500, since having more than that would require filing statements with the SEC.

The biggest downside is the lack of solid management. Upon coming to Epic after having graduated with a business degree and running a company of my own through college, I was put under a Team Leader who had not been with the company more than a few years and had little to no management skill/experience. It appears that promotions to management are not based on managerial talent but on popularity and shear number of hours worked. Another downside of working at Epic is that they recruit people (myself included) who have no background and/or interest in healthcare IT. I believe that this is one of the primary causes of their high turnover rate as most of these people didn't want to be there in the first place.