Epic reviews

Upper management (especially CEO) is so out of touch. The all-staff meeting “performances” with respect to COVID policy are cringeworthy. They are trying to convince us that it’s safe, wise, and necessary to bring 9,000 employees back to campus. There is a lack of empathy for parents who have to grapple with children learning from home, they must either find full time child care or take a pay cut in order to work from home (even for high school aged children who can care for themselves but shouldn’t be left alone for 40+ hours a week). This is not to mention the emotional strain on employees who feel scared by the current plan, but have to sit and hope for the best, or risk being pushed out by retaliatory action against dissenters. Salary and raises are generally good, but in order to advance, you have to fit the mold of the stereotypical Team Lead or other leadership roles (outgoing, vocal during meetings, loud supporter of policies).

"Real" perks are lacking - vacation, 401k matching, parental leave policies are poor. Outdated tech stack and clunky in-house internal tools for everything. The work culture is workaholic to a toxic degree. Co-workers regularly send emails at odd hours and on the weekends. At meetings, people receive praise for working while on vacation or through the night at customer sites. Many, many tedious processes for everything. 18 month noncompete. Epic vs. Lewis. Upper management's response to COVID has been horrible. Work from home was only permitted when mandated by the state, and they're now eager to drag everyone back kicking and screaming as cases and deaths continue to rise. Refusing to return to the office, for your health or out of concerns about spreading COVID in the community, is grounds for termination. They push a cultish "won't it be great when we're all back together soon?" shtick. It's beyond ridiculous and incredibly irresponsible for a healthcare software company to actively reject public health measures to preserve "culture", and to force employees to be unsafe and uncomfortable - for no reason, since IT jobs are easily done remotely - or lose their jobs. I expect things to begin to slowly fall apart for the company as many tenured, skilled employees leave for other jobs and take specialized knowledge with them.