Pros: Learn the healthcare industry decently well.

Cons: - Not well compensated for overtime.

Pros: If you're like me, you might have trouble getting a job straight out of college due to lack of experience. Epic is a great starting place, and if you have a good academic record, you have a good shot at getting in. The benefits are nice, especially the healthcare costs. Your coworkers will be fantastic; I've never worked with a group of such competent people as I did at Epic.

Cons: If you do the bare minimum expectations in QA, your acquired skills won't translate very well to other software companies. Epic QA is almost all about manual testing. If you're hoping to stay in the software QA industry after Epic, you'll almost need to get some programming experience and do some automated testing experience. They will allow you to get the education from there to do automated testing, but as a QAer, your job is to get your manual testing done. Then you can work on automated testing in your extra time. This structure makes it difficult to get much automated testing done, and you'll most likely be using a programming language used almost exclusively in the healthcare industry. So even with some automated testing experience, it can be a little challenging to move elsewhere. There is a software test engineer role you can transfer to that does exclusively automated testing, but it requires multiple college programming classes that wouldn't help you with the language you're programming in, and passing a programming test. This was more hoops than I was willing to jump through to get the increased paycheck at Epic. I focused on manual testing for my first 18 months, then got as much experience in automated testing in the next 15 months as I could before moving on because the automation did not have any positive effect on my raise, which is ridiculous due to the increased skill level needed for automated testing.

Pros: Nice place to work with very helpful teammates.

Cons: Does not offer great increases in annual wage, so it's hard to get a career out of it unless you're a software developer.