Pros: - Your work makes a big difference. - Pay is pretty good, although you can definitely do better. - Campus is cool.

Cons: Upper management is out of touch. Basically, there's no tolerance for WFH and a commitment to never moving in that direction. Depends on your team, but work-life balance is typically not great. Epic views its employees as temporary assets and will get what it can out of you until you've had enough. General competency at Epic seems to be in decline as Epic struggles to recruit and retain talent. Epic uses a lot of outdated technologies. Productivity is very low. Even small projects take a lot of time and effort because Epic is such an enormous integrated system. This means you nearly always need significant input from other teams, and those other teams often lack the expertise to help because so few people stick around long-term. Benefits are well below industry standard. The noncompete is pretty vicious. Epic insists that the cost of living in Madison is very low. That's true if you compare Epic to the West Coast, but in reality, Madison is a fairly expensive place to live and it's getting much more expensive every year.

Pros: Fair pay for new grads, a good benefits package. Wisconsin is a great place to live if you're an outdoors person. Madison is a college town, so it has its fair share of theater, arts, and museums.

Cons: No clearly defined professional development. The most you can realistically expect is being a team lead, which simply adds some spreadsheet tracking responsibilities. As a software developer, surprisingly few customer feedback is channeled back, and most development work is determined/prioritized by your team lead.

Pros: Great pay, great campus, incredible benefits.

Cons: Extreme micromanagement and demanding pace