Epic reviews

- Career growth: The quality management (actually just quality assurance) role used to be a lot more dynamic. Now if you aren't a team lead, good luck getting any opportunities to make a difference outside of your immediate team. Any type of cross-application project management or process improvement is given to team leads. With the company remaining a "flat structure" this just means that there is absolutely no career growth for tenured QAers who aren't interested in people management. - Role value: The CEO of the company does not understand what QA and tech communications roles do, and she resents these roles due to previous class action lawsuits initiated by former employees. The technical communications division was basically gutted last fall, and most documentation responsibilities are now assigned to QA. QA is inefficient and bad at these tasks, but in a company where efficiency is revered, this decision remains because upper management refuses to understand the intricacies of each roles' tasks. - Culture: Upper management is out of touch. The culture they tout is one that made them successful when they were a startup, but it is not a reflection of reality anymore. There is never a need for "all hands on deck" in a company of 11,000 people. Very few of us have a voice. Even those that have the ear of Judy are ultimately ignored because it's a "mother knows best" mentality that all of upper management share. The culture they wish to preserve leaves a bad taste in employees' mouths.

Epic leadership does not care about employees' health or happiness. Their response to COVID-19 has been abysmal. Most of the company can do their job remotely during this pandemic but Epic would rather have them come back to campus to preserve company culture. They took until July to tell employees to start wearing masks and has plans to have everyone back on campus by the end of September. This is Epic putting my, and all other employees health/lives at risk for no reason. As the Black Lives Matters movement and protests were growing this summer, the president of the company sent an email directed at POC of Epic to tell them to stay in their lane and not use company time to protest. This email was sent only to POC/diversity groups and not to the company as a whole. This is targeted oppression of minorities that was met with zero consequence.