Pros
- The cafeteria food is cheap and tasty - Lots of young people (nice for interoffice dating, bad for getting work done) - Company is doing well despite the bad economy (though that's not so much because the executives are geniuses as because the government is shoveling taxpayer money into healthcare IT) - If you got a good GPA but made the mistake of majoring in some worthless soft subject like History or Psychology, this is probably the most money you're likely to make right out of school
Cons
- Middle managers are mostly hacks. There's a few good ones, but most of them seem like the kind of kids who got good grades in college by spending every Friday night in the library grinding through textbooks, overcompensating for a lack of self-confidence through sheer hours logged and OCD attention to detail. - Even if you get promoted to team lead by virtue of logging more hours than any of the other candidates, it will take nothing short of divine intervention for you to ever get promoted again; the upper echelons are for 10+ year veterans only. - You will see some gruesome displays of nerd couture at Epic. Greasy ponytails, wrinkled Star Wars t-shirts, neck beards, and socks-with-sandals are never far away, likewise lolcats and Penny Arcade cartoons taped to office windows. It reminds me of Cary Grant's line in His Girl Friday: "I thought it would be a novelty to have a face around here a man could look at without shuddering." - You didn't care about healthcare IT before you came to work here. Way to follow your dreams. - Upper management loves to brag about how well Epic is doing, but it's still a provincial little penny-ante outfit with revenues well below $1 billion and profits well below $100 million. It's a big player in a tiny little niche market (heavily dependent on government largesse), which come to think of it is a lot like how many of the employees think they're hotshots just because they got good grades at a middling public university in Ohio or Iowa. - They're big on the rah-rah brainwashing, so get ready to have some mass-produced kookiness shoved down your gullet.