Epic Software Developer reviews

If you're _not_ young and just out of college, you might feel out of place among all these younger people. Finding colleagues your age might be a bit more difficult, in this case. They ask long hours of their project management staff, and while that is to be expected to some degree, they can really pile on at times (we give a lot of support to our customers, and it requires more manpower than we are sometimes equipped to give). If you're a developer, you have to work in VB6 and MUMPS; the latter especially could lead to career road blocks later, not to mention being incredibly frustrating, since MUMPS is a typeless language, does not ignore whitespace, and has little to no error handling. On a benefits note, the 401k contribution isn't fully vested for two years, which could be a little annoying. Perhaps the most annoying is that since Judy absolutely refuses to open Epic's financials to the SEC, the number of equity stakeholders is capped at 500, since having more than that would require filing statements with the SEC.

It's a bit of closed, dogmatic environment. Since everybody is hired straight out of college, all management has been there forever. Management is very flat so advancement can be difficult. Leaving Epic can be tough. You can't work for customers or consultants for a year. Can't work with the competition for two years. I've seen lots of kids leave because they couldn't handle the pressure or because they weren't up to the very demanding levels Epic sets. It's pity that the best source of jobs, customers, is closed for a year.