Epic Reviews

Pros

+ You get to work on software that has a positive impact on the world, including saving lives and making patient care better / making doctors' lives easier, as opposed to writing some BS business software like you might have to do at other companies, even the top tech companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc)
+ The interviews don't seem to require much algo/data structure memorization like you'd see at the other tech companies anyway, or specific languages/tech stacks you used, they're more based on behavioral Q's and passion for healthcare
+ Perks are top-notch, especially health plan, as they should be since we're in the medical software industry, also the pay for devs is amazing (I had a BS degree in compsci with a few internships and my starting salary was $95k with an additional $10k moving bonus -- I'm paying about $1k rent per month for a studio apt outside the city, so compare all those numbers to living and working in San Francisco, Seattle, or any of those other big tech cities)
+ You'll work at least 40 hrs/week, I'd say probably 43-45 on average, but depending on your team and manager you will only generally work closer to 50 if there's a bit of stress on your team, or more if there's a serious crunch but I haven't really seen that happen. Usually it's in the lower-to-mid 40's, which is really nice compared to getting stuck working 50-60 hrs regularly for Google or Microsoft or other big-co's. (yeah I know that doesn't always happen either, and lots of people at those companies do get 40-hour weeks, but they also have oncall duty and more crunches in general) You can work more if you want, which usually helps you move up the management ladder faster if you're interested in that -- I've seen managers with only a year of experience out of college just because they worked so hard and succeeded with a lot of responsibilities. But to move up to higher "levels" (SD 2, SD 3, etc) it requires a minimum # of years of experience each time so it might not help sometimes.
+ The technologies you work with aren't all cutting-edge (you have to work with a database language/environment from the 60's) but most devs tend to work on C#.NET web development as well. You might get stuck with Visual Basic since we used to use it but we're trying to finish migrating off that in the next few years. You tend to do fullstack dev basically, but you use lots of homegrown stuff for frontend... your training covers that stuff over the course of the first 3 or so months of your job
+ Training is great -- even if you don't have webdev experience, they bring you up to speed on everything from HTML/CSS/JS frontend stuff to C# backend, as well as how the database internals work so you learn about performance
+ You get to do a lot of nontechnical things that are really impressive on a resume (take ownership of important projects and functional areas, lead people even with only a year or so of experience, mentoring, working with customers directly including going onsite sometimes)
+ Managers are very feedback-oriented and supportive of growth, so if you want to move teams or work on other things they will generally help you with that. However, your manager kinda expects you to grow and listen to feedback, so if you're not open to feedback or growth you might run into conflicts with your manager. If the conflict is serious enough your manager might basically fire you, but a lot of the time it's kind of okay if you are a good developer. Generally they will let you know about that kind of thing ahead of time in your weekly 1-1 meetings, i.e. they will say you need to improve in a certain way, and you will be eventually let go if you don't improve, so you have more than enough time to handle it if it happens, which honestly is still pretty rare.
+ With the above point, if you're really motivated and have the time for it, you can move up in the company really fast and be awesome at a lot of stuff.
+ Overall a pretty lax/understanding environment, lots of great people to work with. I will say non-managers tend to be way nicer and more understanding than the managers though.

Advice to Management

+ Add more "people skills and empathy" training for new managers
+ Get more input from developers instead of only looking to manager peers and execs
+ Increase sick/vacation time a bit
+ Work on how to solve the problem of people getting stuck with poor managers -+ this doesn't happen to most people I think, but it's a great source of turnover especially for other jobs (particularly TS/IS)

Pros

Great benefits
Great pay
Your work really has an impact on the healthcare industry
All employees are really smart, friendly, and willing to help you out

Pros

Varying work, good salary for first job out of college, great supervisor. It can be the right workplace for the right people. They expect a lot out of their employees. QA role get paid the least of the salaried positions but have the best work life balance.

Pros

- Driven and passionate coworkers
- Always something new to learn or do
- Good environment and facilities
- Autonomy

Pros

Some of my favorite things about Epic are the people, the culture, the food (it's really incredible what our culinary team can do), and the feeling of purpose that comes with working for an organization that's got such a big footprint in healthcare around the world. Working together with other smart, motivated people to solve problems and make a difference in this industry feels immensely rewarding.

Pros

- Your work has meaningful impact on the healthcare industry
- Flexibility to work on what you're interested in
- Great work environment
- Great coworkers
- Good compensation
- Good benefits

Pros

Amazing growth opportunities, feedback oriented culture, travel perks, Iliad/Sabbatical program for personal travel

Pros

Everyone is hard working and motivated to do what's best for Epic and the patients. The culture and work environment is one of a kind. There are so many growth opportunities within your role and everyday is different.

Pros

People you work with are driven, excited and intelligent. Folks want to do the right thing and Epic embodies this in its culture. You can see the impact of your work and efforts directly in patient care. The campus is beautiful and the health insurance/benefits are good.

Pros

Generous compensation and benefits, great perks, meaningful work, opportunities for career growth and ongoing learning, amazing and affordable cafeteria, lots of freedom and autonomy, great culture.