Epic Software Developer reviews

3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(951 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

75% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Epic with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 951 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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951 reviews
5.0
Dec 28, 2018

Software that matters

Recommend
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Pros

- Meaningful work, get to see the impact you have on the world. - Best, most innovative customers. We work with the organizations that are changing healthcare, both clinically and technology wise. - No micro-management, can be very autonomous. - High levels of ownership and trust, very little bureaucracy. - Full-stack and full-life-cycle (not just coding, developers do design, problem exploration, immersion with users, code review, project planning, product visioning, etc.) - Tons of opportunities to try new things, grow new skills. People management, product management, expert/owner of a module or project, and MANY more. - Good technology culture, run by developers. - GREAT benefits (best health insurance, 4-week sabbatical, stock ownership, competitive pay, on-site food and other services, etc.) - Wonderful, motivated, fun co-workers. - Culture is open and accessible, open to new ideas and feedback. - Flexible schedule.

Cons

- There's no "ladder" to climb. This is bittersweet: you are valued for your contributions no matter your management level, but it can sometimes feel like you're stuck. You need to be able to identify ways to grow and direct your own career to maximize your happiness.

2.0
Nov 29, 2018

Would not recommend

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Pros

Great food, free drinks stocked in break room You get your own office Good pay Good benefits if you're there for long time Smart co-workers who are generally passionate about pushing out a good product Looks good on resume

Cons

Your experience can vary widely different depending on the team and manager you are assigned. As for me, I was on the bad end of the spectrum. Revolving door work culture and high turnover rate. Their philosophy seems to be hire fresh graduates, burn them out, and hire more when they quit. This leads to no ownership of existing code and just adding to the mountain of technical debt. Of course I have to mention the outdated technology. Even though my training consisted of C# and ASP.NET, the constant poor state of quality of the application I was working in often led to working on VB bug fixes. Very frustrating work. Even when doing web development, you are pretty much restricted to using in-house developed library and controls with have poor support and functionality, and the web pages still have to work in the VB application. Some of the web applications are even written with VB... What a nightmare that was. I don't think the full transition to web will happen any time soon. Project management was especially bad on my team. Even with the mountain of technical debt, managers constantly promise new projects to customers with unrealistic deadlines, and it's left to the developers to deliver. Now it's up to us to work on the project with short deadline, lack of vision, and constant scope creep while juggling endless amount of VB bugs found in incomprehensible code. I was constantly overworked and stressed out. 45 hours a week was the norm, we had team-wide weekly/monthly late nights, and working weekends was not uncommon close to deadline. Add many pointless but required meetings on top of that.

3.0
Nov 13, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Madison is great, amazing salary and benefits, overall pretty good work life balance

Cons

Legacy code that's difficult to maintain, management doesn't always prioritize what's most important

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