Pros: Good pay for fresh hires in the Midwest area.

Cons: As a software company, nobody cares about IT skills. As long as they keep making money, they don't care about any new technologies, which is really bad for developers. The system heavily relies on VB6 and Cache, which are used nowhere outside a few healthcare IT companies.

Pros: Never-ending list of interesting problems. Tons of very smart people. Campus food is amazing. Pay is very good for the region.

Cons: Metrics related to quality often leave me with the feeling of fixing issues so the team gets below an arbitrary number of bugs per developer. These metrics become super high priority since, if they get bad enough, progress on new development has to stop. Epic is a code factory. There are no sprints. If you finish a bug early, you get assigned another one with your newly found bandwidth. Everyone is on high alert all the time. There is no downtime at Epic. Though they're a vital and important piece of developing at Epic, translation and screen reader issues can be annoying to fix. The processes can get very grindy, especially for project development. Getting approval to start or complete development on a project can suck time out of your week really quickly. Management's handling of COVID has left me with a bad taste in my mouth. For a company that is so driven by metrics and who touts that we allow health care organizations to be data-driven, the only explanation we've heard for coming back to work is that "meetings are hard virtually".

Pros: Almost everyone I work with is very talented, friendly, and eager to help, across all roles: SD, QA, Training, HR, TS, IS, etc. The campus COVID-19 precautions are extraordinary. It was a very clean and great campus pre-COVID. But to bring everyone back to campus with maximum safety, they've made a number of changes recently, including giving EVERYONE who wants a solo office a solo office. To achieve this, they did have to do some construction to convert single offices into two rather small offices. I was already on a team & role that had solo offices as long as a window wasn't required. That's a great perk as far as concentrating on code goes. Our culinary team is fantastic. It's the most healthy I've ever eaten in my life. For COVID-19, they've switched to providing everything in to-go containers and payment online. I find the work challenging and fun. As a software developer, you will have opportunities to collaborate with customers on enhancements and learn a lot about an industry that you probably don't know a lot about before Epic.

Cons: For me, the number one con right now is that several hundred employees are quite upset about Epic's plan to have almost all employees working on-site within a few weeks. These employees feel that any amount of added risk from WFW compared to WFH (Work from Home) is not acceptable. Epic's leadership has decided that (a) working on-site produces higher quality software more quickly and (b) there isn't any future time period in sight where it would be viewed as completely safe to cease WFH. I understand the angry employee's perspective, but I also disagree and think the anonymous complaints aren't realistic in acknowledging that it's much easier to work on-site. A simple example is masked-up and working with one or two developers on a whiteboard. This is already happening for those of us who've been WFW for a couple of months now. The other thing that isn't being acknowledged is that Epic's campus is a great example of how to safely open up facilities with a large amount of people. I don't want to get COVID-19 and I don't want other people to contract the disease either. But I've been on campus with 3000+ coworkers for a couple of months and coworkers are being courteous and following safety procedures. 10,000 employees doing the same logically won't make a difference when we can see how the rest of the county, state, and country are returning to more and more in-person activities. If you don't want to work on-site as described, then definitely look elsewhere for work. As far as the dozens and dozens of negative reviews on here, I'd take into consideration how angry they seem to be. It's true leadership hasn't bent 100% to their demands. But I'm personally glad leadership hasn't. Having a few hundred anonymous coworkers whipped up in a frenzy with you doesn't make you "right". Nor does having a billion dollars. Nobody knows for sure who's "right" and there's a lot of disagreement.