Epic reviews

Work-Life balance: Project managers work 45-60 hr weeks. Travel can be very rewarding, but also exhausting. You will always be given more work than one person can handle and you need to learn what to prioritize and when. Absolutely no remote work allowed (except for 2.5 days/year after your first 6 months). High stress: Your first project is particularly difficult as you will go from knowing nothing about the software, industry, or project management to leading a team of 2-10 analysts within the span of a few months. Learn quick or die. Madison relocation: non negotiable, and that includes winter.

-Consensus from tenured Application Managers was that everyone was struggling and overworked; hours are more often insane than not (70-80 hours/week), and you're told by team leads to just 'ask for help' but the workload or organizational need is often customer-specific, and no one else on the app team actually has bandwidth or knowledge to actually take anything off your plate. -Revolving door of application coordinators, so as an application manager you have to train and retrain new hires who are getting thrown onto the project with no application/customer knowledge or project management skills. -Especially post-COVID, truly embarrassing approach to work-from-home with an artificial rationale of 'company culture' particularly for a role that pretty much sits on video calls for 9+ hours a day when in office while trying to answer emails in any given 5 minute break between calls -Culture around recovery time is wild--you may work 12 hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday for a go-live (whether volunteer or for your own project), then get 1 day off as 'recovery' -No real growth path for strong application managers other than taking on more internal roles that you don't have time for