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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3.0
Jul 3, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Usually if you see problems the management is open to letting you change it. Ownership is big. I mentioned a significant amount of problems with Epic but that also means great opportunity for people willing to take the effort to force change.

Cons

Epic's efficient hiring process, campus, and salary may be alluring but it is a little bit of a trap. It is symptom of their high turnover rate which exists for a reason. They will grind you up and spit you out. Developers are expected to carry a significant burden and often only get to spend 5% of their time actually developing. The rest of the time is spent fighting with Epic's internal infrastructure that only exists because developers got fed up with the fact that the company did not find it important enough create. This problem persists because older developers at the company are used to it and new developers get so fed up they quit early.

2.0
Jun 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The work is challenging and meaningful. I feel valued and well compensated.

Cons

Leadership is arrogant and refuses to even acknowledge that they might be wrong. This has been displayed most recently with their handling of COVID, because they refuse to acknowledge that we can be successful working from home in a pinch. Therefore, they are going to be requiring us to return to the office despite public health authorities encouraging businesses to allow work from home. They've been putting their efforts into silencing employees rather than trying to address our concerns in a respectful manner. "Authoritarian" is perhaps a strong word here, but there's no denying the similarities in how internal dialogue is being handled right now and how free speech is handled in authoritarian states. Management does not do a good job at load balancing work, so folks who have a history of success but aren't good at negotiating their workload will often end up with too much work.

1.0
Jun 30, 2020

Values $$$ over lives

Recommend
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Pros

Pretty campus, and good cheap cafeteria.

Cons

Corporate to its core, as in they value profits over the health and lives of their employees and their families. They are requiring their 10,000+ employees to come back to work on campus, censoring coronavirus-related questions in its internal forums and telling those without cars to take the bus (during a pandemic). Dane County has been listed by The New York Times as one of the nation's hotspots of the coronavirus. Yet they are ignoring local and federal public-health guidance to force their entire workforce to return to campus.

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