Epic reviews

-The company's COVID-19 response was incredibly irresponsible, reactionary, and patronizing until PHMDC and the local and national media got involved. Employees were not listened to, gaslit, and censored if providing organized feedback via internal avenues. Improvements to the policy always came last minute without proper notice after local legislation mandated additional measures. -Vacation policy is lacking relative to the tech industry. Sabbatical is effectively back-loaded vacation. -Anti-labor see Epic vs. Lewis. Additionally the COVID-19 response changed just as unionization began getting discussed and worker advocacy groups began getting involved. -Training is hit or miss if it will actually prepare you for what you will be working on. You may end up needing to teach yourself or completely relearn proper development depending on how different your focus will be. -Very ambiguous to what the culture exactly is and how they intend to promote it. Claims to be about encouraging feedback, but incredible lack of transparency regarding pandemic response. Many feared retaliation for dissenting and based on reports from the media they were justified. -Other roles have less support with the work life balance and have to regular put in 50+ hour weeks. -Poor transparency when it comes to internal rankings (used to determine raises) and company policies. During training I was told to not discuss salary with others which only benefits the company. -Limited managerial growth opportunities, lack of external position levels (they have internal analogues to SD I, II, etc.), and fairly outdated tech stack may inhibit career growth.

- Lack of humanity I have been continually disappointed in the lack of humanity shown to employees. There is little to no regard for any personal problem or situation a normal person might encounter over their lifetime. Have a problem? You're likely to just get fired or have the euphemistic "do you fit at Epic?" conversation. The COVID-19 response is the icing on the cake. Employees are required to return to work during a deadly pandemic when almost everyone can work at home. People who don't want to risk death (either themselves or their loved ones) for Epic are "not a good fit." - Management by fear The underlying implication to every failure no matter how slight is that it takes you one step further toward being fired. And lord help you if you push for real changes or provide critical feedback. - Lots of managers, few leaders We've got lots of overly detail-oriented micro-managers but few leaders. By leaders, I mean people who you follow out of respect and not fear. - Shiny but hollow benefits The benefits listed in the pros section are valuable but what people want and need are things like flexibility, consideration, dignity and a work-life balance. Those are not available in general; individual managers vary.