Epic Software Developer reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(958 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

75% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Epic with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 958 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Epic is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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958 reviews
3.0
May 3, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salary given experience and job. Nice location to live. New campus is very impressive. Coworkers friendly and helpful (usually).

Cons

Way too much work dumped on you to get done in a 40-hour week (or maybe even 50 hours). Must choose between working a lot or getting mediocre reviews. Team leads are often way too inexperienced and too busy to be effective managers.

2.0
Mar 30, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Excellent salary starting out. Also, in my six years here, my salary has gone up significantly, too. 2. Cafeteria is pretty nice if you are lucky enough to be in Verona, although overrated. 3. Coworkers, for the most part, are very intelligent, friendly and willing to help. 4. The sabbatical is awesome (4 weeks paid vacation basically, plus they will pay for plane tickets to anywhere you haven't visited in the past year).

Cons

1. Vacation time is below average -- 2 weeks/year until 2 years at the company, then 3 weeks/year. 2. Depending on your application, role and "team lead" (your boss, basically), you may be working 40 hours a week or you may be working 60 hours a week. 3. Middle management, for the most part, is not very understanding of a life outside of epic. I have had four different TLs in my time here. Two were great about balancing a work-social life, and two were the complete opposite. From what I have heard in talks with coworkers, I am lucky to have found two that were good about it. 4. The upper management (Division Managers) micro manage. Often times it is over ridiculous things, too. 5. Judy works routinely works 70+ hour weeks, which sounds good on the surface, but it has really, in my opinion, made her lose touch with reality and realize not everyone wants to spend every day at Epic working like she does. The culture tries to brainwash you into wanting to work absurd hours. 6. There is no compensation for working said absurd hours. At best, you get a good work coupon for a free cookie. At worst, your work will break the ancient code and you will spend many hours fixing it. 7. The code is ancient. Very buggy and not modular at all. Instead of working on fixes or modularity, they just throw more enhancements on top of the already shaky framework.

3.0
Mar 30, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. can learn something about healthcare 2. the environment is good

Cons

1. The language you use in EPIC is used only for EPIC, which is not good for future career development. 2 The place is cold

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