Epic Software Developer reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(951 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

75% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Epic with 3.4 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
3.0
Jan 12, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-Epic software makes a difference in healthcare, you can go to work knowing that you're doing something that matters -As you progress in time you get more power to choose your projects and help direct the future of the product you work on -Great compensation, benefits, work environment -Fun coworkers, having a sense of humor is important -Very stable business -Highly ethical corporate culture, no evil pointy haired bosses here

Cons

-Epic's quality control process needs improvement. In some phases of development you end up chasing bugs for months on end instead of doing anything new. That can be very frustrating. -Poor sense of priority. Technical services and project managers frequently escalate problems that aren't important simply because they wouldn't get attention otherwise. This wastes a lot of people's time. -The technology is way out of date, VB6 is 20+ years out of date and Cache isn't used outside of healthcare. If you plan to get a job after Epic, learn new things on your own. Don't hold out for the web framework, because it is entirely proprietary and uses none of the JS frameworks that pretty much every other employer is looking for.

2.0
Jan 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Excellent compensation (great starting salary in a low cost area, relocation assistance, excellent benefits) - Many older reviews complain about VB6 - most teams don't use it anymore. - MUMPS really isn't that bad of a language, but it's definitely not a transferable skill.

Cons

- No work-life balance. Constant late nights (depending on team, but even the best have two weeks of 8am-9pm each month). - Kool-aid culture. The management constantly tries to brainwash employees into believing we are God's gift to electronic medical record software. - Extremely burdensome QA process. I once had a one line change take two months to get through to the release environment. Typically there are two programmer QA passes, and anywhere from 1 to 3 QA passes for a bug fix, and many more for a large project. Each of these can take days. - Go-lives/immersion. Even developers are forced to travel on-site and take part in go-lives. Enjoy working 12 hours with the most insufferable users expecting you to fix everything. - Internal tools are awful, clunky, and old. - You have basically no say in what you work on.

4.0
Dec 10, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The company offers a great salary Nice work/life balance for a software developer.

Cons

Number of vacations should be increased. Ten days for the first two years is a little low.

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