Epic reviews

Management has doubled down on putting 'culture' above employee health, including asking immuno-compromised patients to identify themselves to be allowed to work from home.

With Epic's motto being "with the patient at the heart," the employees find themselves riding in the back around where the intestines are. Short term employee productivity is placed at a premium, where a 45-50 hour workweek is made the norm for employees. Work "opportunities" will be continuously pushed unless employees know how to say "no," which is not a part in any form of training the company has. Management is stubborn to the point where they don't trust methods of work that weren't developed or available in the 90s/early 2000s, when the company began to grow like kudzu. Parental leave policy is a joke, which remarkably is an improvement from "virtually nothing" (sick time only) a few years ago. Remote work policy pre-pandemic was hard to get and pretty much only available to traveling roles (2 trips/month for 1 day of workaway). Puritan alcohol policy. No alcohol allowed at any Epic or "perceived" Epic functions. Meal allowances do not allow alcohol to be expensed. No ability for employees to book own travel- if you don't know what you want- travel department will cheap out and book flights at the least convenient times for employees. It took bad press for Epic to allow employees to work from home when the pandemic started. As of June, they are trying to force employees to return to work quickly while other tech companies are extending remote work through the end of the year. Spending millions of dollars on whimsical office buildings have made the campus a hill to die on for management. Epic is also shady around labor practices. They touted winning a Supreme Court case (Epic v. Lewis for the curious) in front of all employees during a staff meeting that the individual arbitration agreement they make all employees sign is legally enforceable (to ensure the company doesn't get hit with class action lawsuits). Non-compete clause with competitors, client/customer organizations, and consulting firms used to be one year- Epic has quietly blackmailed (through restricting access to ex-employees with lack of compliance) organizations to make this 18 months, and a binding 2 year commitment if an employee chooses to buy shares of the company. Oh, and the 401k match is minimal (up to 3% with 6% contribution).