Pros: Able to get involved in projects outside of your team. Flexibility for when to come in every day and leave every day. It's nice to work an extra hour Monday and Tuesday and leave two hours early on Friday if you have to travel anywhere.

Cons: Work-life balance can depend a lot on your team and your TL. Some TLs bend over backwards to make unrealistic deadlines work, and others tell you to protect your free time. If it can't be done in 40 hours, then it won't be done. Working weekends can be depressingly common on some teams, especially late in release. Working 50-hour weeks to finish up doesn't mean you can work any less than 40 the following week to avoid burnout on most teams. Being salaried just means no overtime, not that you can ever work less than 40 without catching insane amounts of flak.

Pros: Fantastic cafeterias that have inexpensive food. Juice and milk in the fridges. Practically zero supervision. Opportunity to travel pretty much anywhere in the US for go-lives.

Cons: You will learn literally nothing that is at all relevant to any other company in the industry. Epic is the most fiscally wasteful company I can imagine. Every single project is developed without supervision and without any budget, as far as I could tell. Epic will only consider hiring developers directly out of college. This results in the majority of projects being staffed by developers who are not qualified for the project. I remember one project I was assigned to that initially had 3 brand new developers. 2 of them left within the first 6 months, and they were replaced by two even newer developers. The project, which I could have developed in my free time over a few months, ended up taking a year and a half and costing close to a million dollars. Thank god I was able to find a job at a real software company based on other qualifications.

Pros: Taught me what it takes to work hard. Taught me what I don't want in a position. The QA at Epic is very solid compared to other software companies. Emphasis on process means that all code goes through the same pipeline.

Cons: Not a lot of avenues to learn more. If you are good at what you are doing, you are stuck there, and they will not allow you to change that unless you tell them you have a job offer. So process-heavy that they forget what's important. Lots of people do nothing while a few get the hard work done. Somewhat "cult-like".