Pros: Many seductive benefits: good food, a 6-figure starting salary as a software dev, and a moving stipend (although be aware that state taxes will reduce a 15k stipend to under 10k). It's relatively ok to be openly LGBTQ.

Cons: Exploits fresh-out-of-college workers with impressive propaganda. Will slowly boil the frog until you're working 70-80 hours a week. This company does a great job of looking like it cares about you, but if that were the case, they wouldn't have taken binding arbitration agreements to the Supreme Court. If you decide to work here, plan to leave in about 2 years.

Pros: Get to work on interesting projects.

Cons: Experience is very dependent on your team lead, especially when it comes to timeline expectations.

Pros: The pay is fantastic, and the health insurance is unrivaled.

Cons: The work-life balance is horrible and toxic. If you join Epic, prepare to feel like you are never meeting expectations and to join a culture that fosters self-doubt and imposter syndrome. Your experience will completely depend on what team you are placed on. Unless you fight for a specific one in the interview process, they only communicate which team you are on one week before starting. Transferring teams is impossible unless you tell them you are willing to quit for it and they view you as valuable. This is coming from someone with 3.5 years' tenure and doing "very well".