Epic Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

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Important to pace yourself and realize that only you can ensure your work life balance.

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The fast growth of the company means that we always have a big meaty challenge to tackle. That generally means hard work and spiky hours. However we are afforded quite of bit of flexibility and independent accountability which helps maintain a work life balance.

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-The company's COVID-19 response was incredibly irresponsible, reactionary, and patronizing until PHMDC and the local and national media got involved. Employees were not listened to, gaslit, and censored if providing organized feedback via internal avenues. Improvements to the policy always came last minute without proper notice after local legislation mandated additional measures. -Vacation policy is lacking relative to the tech industry. Sabbatical is effectively back-loaded vacation. -Anti-labor see Epic vs. Lewis. Additionally the COVID-19 response changed just as unionization began getting discussed and worker advocacy groups began getting involved. -Training is hit or miss if it will actually prepare you for what you will be working on. You may end up needing to teach yourself or completely relearn proper development depending on how different your focus will be. -Very ambiguous to what the culture exactly is and how they intend to promote it. Claims to be about encouraging feedback, but incredible lack of transparency regarding pandemic response. Many feared retaliation for dissenting and based on reports from the media they were justified. -Other roles have less support with the work life balance and have to regular put in 50+ hour weeks. -Poor transparency when it comes to internal rankings (used to determine raises) and company policies. During training I was told to not discuss salary with others which only benefits the company. -Limited managerial growth opportunities, lack of external position levels (they have internal analogues to SD I, II, etc.), and fairly outdated tech stack may inhibit career growth.

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You will be overworked constantly. There is no work life balance and you're making less than consultants around the country.

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It is hard work and it can definitely take over your work/life balance if you let it. You need to actively manage your personal vs. professional life.

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Work/life balance can tip quickly toward the absurd (though they'll reward you for it) Culture can be a little overbearing

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I got moved around a lot with some great managers, but I still would have liked some stability. Some roles can be super rough with work/life balance and require a ton of travel. Depending on your manager, you can be expected to work pretty late. Slow development process. Many teams are still using VERY outdated languages, so skills may not transfer to later jobs. There is a lot to learn when you join, long training period where you learn medical terms, code base, language, and healthcare regulations.

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-Management has had a very poor response to the COVID19 pandemic. They have not made employee health and safety a priority when making decisions. When it started getting really bad in the US, they were very behind in allowing WFH, so much so that a petition was started. Once they eventually caved, they worded it in a way that basically shamed people from doing it and still encouraged people to come in. Their reluctance to take precautions to protect employees is a very common pattern throughout their communications during this pandemic. Starting in mid July they will begin forcing employees back to campus with no option to WFH with all employees back on campus by the end of August. This is despite cases increasing and the CDC still recommending that employees work remotely if they can. There has been almost no transparency into why they have decided to risk our health to be on campus. Additionally, when we return they are not requiring masks to be worn despite the fact that there will be around 10,000 people on campus. -Work from home is not allowed normally, even though you will mostly work on independent projects that don't require seeing or interacting with people on the day to day. -You'll be told that you will be working in languages like Javascript and C# when interviewing, but when you actually start working you will be coding in M, which no other companies use, giving you no transferable experience. -Epic heavily bases your performance on the time you log and will encourage a poor work life balance. -Vacation is low compared to competitors.

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THe work is not the most interesting. Travel is a component of the job, during which 12 hour days are the norm. The company tries a little too hard to promote an internal "geeky" culture.

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It can quickly overwhelm you if you don't find the right balance between work and home life.