Epic reviews

You really have to fight for your work-life balance at this company. Good work is rewarded with more work, and that additional work is also typically more challenging. Turnover at Epic is high. It may not seem like it, but the relative population of the company has been the same for a while (about 2 years) even when they hire hundreds of people each month. High turnover leads to a lot of difficulties on challenging projects (with tight deadlines). No promotion structure. Epic uses a flat structure where the only way to really advance your career is by becoming a manager or transferring to a higher-paid role. Company culture is rather cult-like. Burnout is a real issue, and Epic fails to recognize how it affects employees. 40 hours a week is the minimum... expectations for full-time employment likely hover around 45-50 hours a week (this is quite frustrating).

- Upper management is out of touch. - Basically no tolerance for WFH and committed to never moving that direction. - Depends on your team, but work-life balance is typically not great. Epic views its employees as temporary assets, and it will get what it can out of you until you've had enough. - General competency at Epic seems to be in decline as Epic struggles to recruit and retain talent. - Epic uses a lot of outdated technologies. - Productivity is very low. Even small projects take a lot of time and effort because Epic is such an enormous integrated system, which means that you nearly always need significant input from other teams, and those other teams often lack the expertise to help because so few people stick around long-term. - Benefits are well below industry standard. - The noncompete is pretty vicious. - Epic insists that the cost of living in Madison is very low, and that's true if you compare Epic to the west coast, but in reality Madison is a fairly expensive place to live and it's getting much more expensive every year.