Epic Software Developer reviews

- Many strict, inflexible processes. Deadlines were automatically set as soon as you started working on something, and you had to talk to a team lead to change them. I was on a big team; I think some of the small teams were better. - Fairly long hours, and before deadlines all developers had to stay till 9 pm some nights regardless of what work they had to do. - Long commute if you want to live near Madison itself. - Outdated technology. I didn't mind Mumps, but VB6 is terrible. Hopefully they've made progress on the transition to C#.

The form opinions about people quickly, and it can be hard to change them. The flat hierarchy is good for many things, but "advancement" in terms of higher titles and more official authority are frequently unavailable. If you get a less experienced manager (which can easily happen), you need to help him or her manage you or you can end up with too much work, and I see plenty of younger employees who struggle with this. Internal development management tools are awkward, and improvement of them isn't a high enough priority.