Pros: Great salary & benefits. Meaningful work that contributes to a better health system.

Cons: Overwork. Most project managers at Epic are asked to juggle way too many things.

Pros: The money is decent (getting worse though).

Cons: Ignore the very brief, positive reviews. Most are by very new employees who basically haven’t been around long enough to know the company yet. It takes a few months or a couple years to see the full picture. They’re masterful gaslighters. Dysfunctional leadership cabal, surrounded by yes-man middle managers. Seriously, a group of like 4-6 people, 60 years old and older, micromanage every bit of the company. And they’re hopelessly behind the times. Listen to Judy talk at staff meetings. It’s basically incomprehensible. I tell people it’s like if a 10,000-person company gave my 95-year-old grandma a microphone and a stage to speak her mind. Really bizarre. Zero work-life balance. They will exploit you and gaslight you endlessly. You are a cog in the machine to them, no matter the accolades or work you do. Don’t take my word for it, though; the details are public domain. They tried to force employees back to the office in 2020 during the pandemic. Middle managers who didn’t take up the cause were fired. Backlash went national. Watch CBS News Morning Report: “Employees Raise Safety Concerns with Return to Work Plans.” Most managers left now are the ones who didn’t question the insanity; keep that in mind. They include clauses in contracts to prevent you from taking them to court over wage theft. Search Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis. It went to the Supreme Court. Their resistance to diversity at the company — see “Leaked recording of Epic president reinforces employees’ doubts about commitment to diversity” on Madison.com. It’s a sinking ship. GET OUT!

Pros: Reliable, intelligent coworkers. Great compensation. Travel perks, which got a lot less perky when COVID shut down travel.

Cons: Last-minute mandatory travel can be thrown on your calendar at any moment. It's expected that that's reasonable, because when you're in implementation, all your time and energy goes into managing your customers' escalations. It's very difficult to manage a life outside of doing a good job in this role.