Epics culture has quickly taken a nose dive, and created a hostile work environment. Management has taken every single opportunity to silence employees and shut down every possible channel for feedback. This is all while pretending they are looking for feedback. The constant gas lighting is mentally draining, and makes me embarrassed to work here.
The best developers that can find other jobs are fleeing, leaving only the koolaid drinkers and below average performers. There’s a good reason the GlassDoor rankings have taken a sharp noise dive.
You’ll work on an ancient tech stack so your skills won’t be transferable. The primary database language is an absolute nightmare, just go look up some MUMPS code before applying. The big company project right now is “Web Migration”, where people are just rote translating VB activity’s into a custom monstrous Web Framework. This has been going on for years, with no signs of stopping.
The internals tools are impressively bad. Our custom version of Jira takes ~2 minutes just to open up, and if have to unplug your laptop it just crashes. All developers work in one huge shared environment which is constantly breaking because of course it is. Server code is barely version controlled, as soon as your press “Save” in their ugly custom IDE, it immediately pushes your changes out to all your coworkers.
The CEO often refers to the company as a “Software Factory”, with the clear implication to developers that your are just a replaceable cog.
