Epic reviews

The workload is atrocious. Epic purposely burns out employees instead of hiring more people to manage the workload. Your boss has no real ability to make your workload any less so you just have to suck it up. So many people from Epic have mental health problems from the stress.

Anti-employee stance: Epic pretends to care about you while you're employed, but quickly turns against you. Employees have a 1-2 year noncompete agreement, which means if you leave, you better have savings. Epic has hurt employees' rights nationwide (Epic v. Lewis). Leadership: Upper management is secretive and authoritarian. I used to think we cared about patients and employees, but management is being unreasonable with regards to the COVID pandemic. They have outlined a plan to go back to work too soon, endangering lives. They're not listening to our concerns. They are filtering the feedback and questions to make it seem like people have a positive outlook on returning to work. Work: Our codebase is unmaintainable. We don't put in time to develop safeguards to make harder to develop mistakes in our code. We keep marching ahead with new functionality, but we don't spend the time fixing existing features or consolidating modules. There are hundreds of bugs notes that are over 5 years old. Benefits: While we have some excellent benefits, time off is pretty skimpy. Your first 2 years, you get 10 days of vacation per year. After that, it stays at 15 days with no chance of getting any higher with tenure. We get the bare minimum number of holidays, totaling 6.5 days plus 1 floating holiday. (To give you a sense of this, you'd use the floating day to take the Friday after Thanksgiving off.) Growth: There could be great career growth or you may feel stuck in a rut. For technical and implementation services, you will likely stay in healthcare IT. However, the noncompete severely limits you.