Epic Software Developer reviews

Very bad work life balance. Basically, they want you to program in Mumps because that is what the system is built on. However much you slog and work hard, once you decide to leave the company, you are pretty much done. Just forget about working for any other customer of Epic. They have these stupid non-compete agreements and secretly enforce them and prevent any clients from hiring you. You work in a packaged world and when you come out, you will have to work extra hard trying to adapt to working in other technologies that are not relevant. Just take your talents some where else and utilize them properly. You can however still get into the Epic world (if only about money) by trying to get into healthcare IT who have Epic software and slowly entering into the Epic implementations by taking certifications. Here again, if you take certifications with one employer, you cannot jump to another employer easily, otherwise, Epic will 'blacklist' you. Stay away if you can. My colleagues are struggling to get out but they have to consider getting other employment once they come out. Some are on H-1B visas since Epic only sponsors in EB-3 so that you are stuck here for the next 20 years and slog here without any future outside.

Let me preface this by saying that I work hard and am okay with giving 80 hours a week. In fact my advice to folks who are applying to Epic, its not just a software company, its software and services company (almost akin to consulting) and expect to put in long hours. Stop whining about work/life balance - it gets made not given. and realize that working at a company is about fitting with a culture (i.e. a give and take). - Epic is made to an effect in its founder's image. There are things Judy believes and hence Epic does. But as the company grows its not adapting. So if you clash with "Epic's" ideals it will be difficult for you. - There is a weird dichotomy in that we try to be open and transparent to customer as much as possible but the management decided to not do the same for its employees. It almost smacks of patronizing attitude towards employees. For example the fact that we do stackranking was news to most when it came out in the blogs. Feedback from the lead is always "tangential" and there is always a perception among employees about higher-than-average firings (and the management seems to not do much about this perception). - A lot of your career advance is strongly linked to the types of projects you work on. Infrastructure projects are not visible and high impact and essentially you will end up wasting a whole release unless you take up projects on your own.(this is more for software devs though) - While I was leaving we were trying to hire more to software devs to compensate for growth and were not doing a very good job of it. Essentially we seemed to be throwing more money at the problem without trying to address the systemic issues. Full disclosure I left because I wanted to work on something other than Epic's stuff.