Epic Project Manager/Implementation Consultant reviews

-Lots of young employees. Some are not high quality which can cause more experienced folks to work more to fill the gaps. I was there for about 3 years and was more experienced than 98% of the folks in my role and product (about 130+ people). -Difficult to get extra help on projects when work becomes too much. -Calls on cell phone during vacations and weekends are pretty consistent if you're good at what you are doing. I've spent 1-2 hours per day when on vacation calling into meetings. -No clear feedback system. You need to push people to give you feedback, even your supervisor -Some supervisors do not have strong people management skills. I had 1 review in about 3 years and rarely met with my supervisor. - Because there is so little oversight, there is a lack of consistent professionalism from other employees. Often you may need to pull folks aside (even senior level employees) and provide direct feedback to them. - Lots of good people are overworked which causes difficulty getting needed resource time from experts (unless you are friends with them :), which can cause a snowball effect on projects -Epic hires too many low quality employees and then fires many of them. They seem to use the first 6-9 months as the real interview process. This can cause headaches for the people working with the inexperienced folks. Some new hires are awesome though and provide value quickly. -Way too much travel if you are good. You'll end up making around 40-50 trips per year once you have some experience. This will include some weekend travel.

The company takes advantage of the fact that most employees are recent college graduates who have the mentality of getting a project done even if it means pulling all-nighters. I've worked 15 hours daily (weekends included!) and when I ask for internal help, my managers just told me to spend more of my nights and weekends working. At the end of the project, I didn't even get recognized for my hard work. The managers are mostly in their mid-twenties and do not know how to grow their team members nor troubleshoot. Some managers with more tenure just do whatever they want (being disrespectful in meetings - someone said out-loud that a presentation was boring, giving attitudes, etc). Although these folks get negative reviews consistently, nothing changes. At the end of the day, I was destroying my health and my personal relationships without any recognition nor support from this company. Also, there is barely any diversity in this company.