Epic Software Developer reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(949 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 949 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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949 reviews
2.0
Jan 29, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Exposure to technology that is ever increasingly being used in health care. As such, it's a good launching pad for a related career in consulting or at a client site.

Cons

Long hours (think: you can bring pets into the office with you... WHEN you're spending your free time working on the weekends) Scattered management with no real structure, career advancement is only available for a select few. Management tries to paint the picture that it's such a fun and unique place to work, but you soon realize that it's just smoke and mirrors. They constantly remind you that you're "picked because you are among the brightest in their application pool", yet due to the number of apoplicants for each open positions, you are easily replaceable.

4.0
Jan 16, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great opportunity for anyone who is really smart, and capable of true responsibility. Folks in their mid twenties are routinely entrusted with keeping customers with $10M contracts happy. As you show that you can handle it, you acquire more responsibility. The boss calls it "earned autonomy." The company's software is routinely rated higher than all competitors by a neutral industry rating organization, and we win contracts with many more customers than our competitors (in our target market, which is health care organizations ranging in size from large to huge). There is very little bureaucracy or office politics. The company invests in people. Programmers have 3 months of training, other jobs a bit less. The work is worth doing. The software genuinely improves the quality of health care, which is a lot more rewarding than working on some accounting system would be. Epic is not a publicly traded company. So that whole set of pressures and competing priorities is entirely absent. All, or nearly all, of the management folks started as programmers. So management understands the work and concerns of the technical staff. Here are some turnover figures, computed in May 2008. - 16% of new hires leave within the first year - 31% of new hires leave within the first two years - 50% of new hires are still with the company after 4 years - 32% of new hires are still with the company after 10 years This represents a pretty low turnover rate. For national figures on turnover, see http://www.bls.gov/news.release/nlsoy.t02.htm. (Unfortunately, this table doesn't distinguish between professional jobs and burger-flipping.)

Cons

For programmers, the downside is that the software is pretty much special-purpose. You won't be able to check off a bunch of buzzwords on your resume because of your work at Epic. You won't get experience working with the hottest new technology. Some positions involve a huge amount of travel, and people can burn out after 2 to 4 years. All, or nearly all, of the management folks started as programmers. Their level of management skill varies widely.

4.0
Dec 8, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

very good employee care and benefits. interview process is longer but it helps the company to select worthy candidates who are addicted to success all through academics. They will care a lot for you all through the interview process and provide you with very good benefits at work. Since the company is into health care, they have a very good medical insurance coverage. at the maximum u will be paying around 40$ for very good coverage.

Cons

i just joined and did not see any as of now. Gives more importance to GPA which is good in a way but hard for guys who are not too gud in academics.

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