Pros: TL;DR: Fired the day before stock vesting. Manager baits you to quit so you don't get unemployment. Managers really want you to do nothing controversial, as nothing can come back on them. I worked hard. My dev metrics were in the top 25% every quarter. This resulted in me receiving more feedback than most developers because I did more stuff. I also worked on controversial work that sparked lots of design discussion. (I am a 3-year dev; I am not dumb and know what we were doing was difficult, new, and unproven.) As a result, my team lead noticed the high issue counts on designs and started micromanaging me to "get better." He started saying stuff like my time logging was inaccurate; I actually spent 5 hours on something instead of 6, like my time log said. Anyway, after 1 year, they just had a bunch of meaningless stuff like this they used to fire me right before stock vesting. I've seen the same thing happen to four of my team members, and I should have seen it coming. Did I deserve to be fired? I don't think so. I think if I said yes, I'd be drinking my TL's copium.

Cons: Epic is a great place to work if you want to be offered stock options that could never actually vest. The whole way they make money is people leaving before the breakeven point. - Math not included.

Pros: Epic pays fairly well for a non-NYC/SF software firm, and the health insurance is the best you'll find anywhere. The fringe benefits (delicious lunch, great campus, etc.) are solid, too. I think that, for the most part (and despite my complaints on other matters later in this review), Epic genuinely does good by its customers/clients in terms of helping them improve healthcare delivery.

Cons: Epic has systematically quashed all internal avenues for giving meaningful feedback regarding policies that affect the conditions of employment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Epic has then gone on to make decisions about work-from-home that are seemingly to the benefit of nobody, with the possible exception of a small cabal in uppermost management who are apparently allergic to the idea of people not physically being on campus. At the most recent all-hands (staff) meeting, Epic then stood up a stooge to talk about how the pandemic isn't really that bad and working from the office is totally going to be hunky-dory. This will inevitably prove injurious to the health of Epic's employees and the larger community in which we all live. The marginal benefit of forcing everybody to return to the office (currently planned for September, with no signs that this is going to change) cannot possibly be worth the marginal health risks incurred (to say nothing of the discontent being fomented among unhappy employees). I could levy various complaints about our tech stack (long story short, it is a nightmare, albeit less so now than when I started), but these frankly pale compared to the utter horror show that has been the company's mismanagement in the face of the pandemic.

Pros: Interesting projects. Biggest company in medical software in the US. Interesting company culture.

Cons: No particular cons as such.