Epic Software Developer reviews

If I were to have written a review at any point before the pandemic and Epic's abysmal response, I would have given this company 4 stars, maybe 3 stars on a bad day. I can't really forgive how appalling their response to COVID-19 has been. Virtually all job titles at Epic can be just as effectively completed at home, yet they were later than most other major companies in allowing work from home, while at the same time a subset of employees (not software developers) were still travelling back and forth from our healthcare customers in some early hotspots (NY, NJ, WA). Since allowing work from home in late March, upper management has sent out several of passive-aggressive emails "welcoming" us to work back on campus while killing any posts on our internal forums questioning or asking for more clarity on their policies. As of writing this (6/21), we're planning a phased return to work of all employees, with 1) no plan of mandatory mask usage, 2)no mitigation for the large number of employees with an office mate where 6 ft social distancing is impossible 3) Those who rely on public transportation were told to find a carpool and 4) least serious but what I find incredibly cheap and petty.... masks and hand sanitizer for sale in the stores rather than made freely available to all employees. The above might have been somewhat forgivable if our management had been able to present some argument that we've been unable to meet commitments to customers while working from home, but that clearly hasn't been the case. Every role has pitched in extra hours either with installs, technical support, development, or testing somehow related to the pandemic for our customers - any quality metric I've seen has stayed the same or improved. It all just seems to be a vaguely defined notion of going against our "culture", "philosophy", or "DNA" (as if a 40 year old company is a civilization, lol). Speaking of which our latest "corporate philosophy" course is going ahead with hundreds of new summer hires expected to go ahead without a virtual option.

1. Learning seizes at around the 6 month to 1 year mark. You basically get to know Mumps and C#. 2. In most of the team there is no challenging work other than web migration, which is basically converting the VB based modules to Web. Even in this most of the ASP.NET part of the code is abstracted by foundation framework that already exist. 3. Bad Team Lead is a norm and a lot of your success in the organization depend on the Team Lead that you get. 4. Raises are based on ratings that are not transparent and depends a lot on your TL. 5. No Work from home policy and less flexibility in terms of when and where you work from. 6. You need to log your time every day and mention any work related activity that you did for more than 15 mins. You are expected to have >= 45 hrs a week. TLs are expected to review this every week.