Epic Software Developer reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(953 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

77% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Epic with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 953 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Epic is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jul 7, 2020

Bad work life balance

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Pros

You own your projects from start to finish.

Cons

Bad work life balance. They expect at least 45 hours a week.

4.0
Jul 7, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

-The work actually has very real impact -There is a direct line to the end users to talk to who are extremely willing to help -Over my 6+ years, I've seen dev processes incrementally and meaningfully transform (some better, some worse, but impressive for a large company nonetheless) -Developers get a LOT of autonomy and control over designs (maybe almost too much) -You will learn a lot about solid development fundamentals and development practices -The people are above average. Are they the smartest devs like you may see from top schools that go to work at FANG? No. Are they still very smart, yes. -Contrary to other reviews, I've thought that direction and vision on my teams and in the company has always been very clear. -The pay is really good (and the cost of living is dirt cheap) -The food and campus are great -It's incredibly easy to social distance at our giant, beautiful campus where everyone has offices and the whole campus is super spread over a farm -People say that the average hours and expectations are really high. I can tell you with confidence that the average dev hours across the company are at ~43 hr/wk. If you want to be a high performer and get paid more, do more and have good outcomes. The work life balance is actually not nearly as bad as people say.

Cons

-The core web framework used for development of the main platform, that was built internally, simply isn't as good as something like Angular2 and other popular web frameworks. It has less functionality, extremely strict standards, and performs like a turtle. -Unless you work on something like the Warehouse product that's SQL based and relevant to a lot of companies' data management, you're not really learning industry leading tools or services. If you want to move elsewhere you'll need to study up a lot on your own and learn/practice outside of work. -You'll need to fix the same thing multiple times in many versions of the software and have it reviewed and tested over and over again, when all you really want to do is work on a new enhancement that's interesting. The dev process is not fun. -Management is all former developers, but they haven't done it in forever and basically only care about if you're good at estimating, being transparent, and hitting milestones appropriately. Direction and priority can change week to week depending on which customers are the loudest. -The hiring bar seems to have gotten lower and lower over time. Sure, everyone's smart and got a CS degree and did decently well in school. However, that's about all the hiring requirement is. You have a CS degree and can write suboptimal, messy code that works? Welcome! Have fun driving the senior devs insane.

2.0
Jul 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Do meaningful work with a supportive team - Gorgeous campus - Great food - Great pay for an inexpensive place to live

Cons

Very poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in ways that make it hard for me to trust what management will do in a future crisis, including but not limited to: - Being slow to initially offer work-from-home, and just as slow to offer extensions of it (often demanding employee outcry and/or bad press before they do). - Constantly pushing for a return to campus en masse. - Minimal attempts to convince us that our "culture" of in-person work is worth literally risking our health for. - Suppression of any dissent on our internal forums, such as redacting questions on our internal Stack Overflow-esque site.

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