Pros: Good pay, devs essentially design their own projects. Madison is awesome. Food on campus is excellent.

Cons: Needlessly stressful at times, bad work-life balance, bare minimum PTO, absolutely zero chance for remote work, a little cult-ish. The campus is way out in a suburb and not actually in Madison.

Pros: Very competitive salary; other benefits are average. Most coworkers are very bright, friendly, and helpful. Health care IT has the potential to be very interesting and rewarding. It's not the evil empire. For all its faults, Epic does have a lot of good things to offer.

Cons: Experience largely depends on your manager and his/her manager. Some teams have reasonable expectations for workload, while others do not. It's easy to find yourself overwhelmed. Epic's response is typically to blame poor time management on your part. Software is fragile and poorly designed. This is partly because of the programming languages (a lot of MUMPS and VB6). It's also partly because Epic's developers, while generally very bright, aren't very experienced (and often don't even have a background in software development). So you end up with this immense codebase filled with "newbie" mistakes: poor design decisions, no documentation, and subtle but dangerous bugs. It's very difficult to be productive and innovative when this is what you have to work with. Don't expect to grow as a software developer at Epic. Our end users don't really like our software and resent having to use it. Epic only pays lip service to addressing any of these concerns. Company culture is weird, with a lot of corporate naivete and arrogance. They generally treat employees like children; you'll feel like you're back in middle school.

Pros: You can feel happy when you see the campus on the inside. Ornate buildings and supportive people contribute to this feeling.

Cons: I don't know where to start. There's a blame game going on where if you have a TL who doesn't like you, they will go all over the place blaming you for everything, regardless if it's really your fault. After I put in honestly large hours getting my responsibilities to work, I don't feel the satisfaction and accomplishment I would expect myself to feel if upper management was actually realistic with their expectations.