Pros: The campus is breathtaking. The cafeteria is amazing and ridiculously inexpensive for such awesome food. Great benefits, especially health insurance, which covers you from your first day of employment – none of this "90 days" crap. There are some AMAZING benefits that I've never seen anywhere, like a paid sabbatical (under certain conditions, they will even pay for your travel and lodging for things like charitable work or visiting a country you've never been to), as well as a matching 401k and generous stock options. The problem is, you have to stick around for at least FIVE years for any of this stuff to kick in, which is exceedingly difficult for all but a few employees.

Cons: There are only a few levels of management between you and the top, which they tout as a good thing. Really, all it means is that if you haven't been there for a decade, there's zero chance of you getting promoted beyond anything more than team lead (which is one of those "more work for no more pay and no better title" sort of positions). They have absolutely no concern for your quality of life, just how much of your personal time you're willing to devote to the company with little in return. The general expectation is that you work a minimum of 60 hours a week, traveling frequently (even if you're in a non-travel position, such as a programmer) and not even get compensated for weekend travel days. And God help you if you have a complaint or conflict with management. I went to HR to request a transfer to a different division due to a severe personality conflict with my new manager (after my old manager got sick of things and left the company). There are literally dozens of interchangeable divisions in the company to which you are just randomly assigned when you're hired. Yet, rather than deal with my request with discretion, like I requested, they went straight to the manager and told him everything about my complaint. Ultimately, this led to him putting me on "probation," despite the fact that I did not have any previous disciplinary action or performance issues. Realizing there would never be a resolution that benefited me, I chose a severance package in lieu of probation and left, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

Pros: The campus keeps things interesting. The food is good, and the benefits are good (including free stock that the company buys back from you when you leave). The company culture surrounding feedback creates a fairly safe space to give constructive criticism, and personally, I liked the people I worked with.

Cons: Managers are encouraged to be hypercritical and employees are pushed to work 50+ hour weeks. It’s challenging to maintain work-life balance. There’s little to no flexibility around work from home (you get 5 days per year for now plus extreme weather days). Diversity is not great (software developers were overwhelmingly male; teams I saw had less than 1 female developer for every 20 male ones).

Pros: Just traveling to new places on immersion trips.

Cons: Worst experience I've ever had in my whole life regarding all sides: life balance, people you work with, work environment, atmosphere. It was just bad. You'll be losing your skills over time until you'd be unemployable because you have no market value from an "Epic" background. It's been more than 5 years. They say we'll move from VB to C#, but still, more than 70% of the company codes in VB. Imagine in 2017, I was coding in VB. The last time I coded in VB before Epic was in primary school. Company culture is very bad. I've seen people getting fired because they didn't like their team leaders' way of leading or talking. They were fired because they escalated to HR! Everyone has a private office, which makes it very difficult to ramp up fast. Everyone pretends to be busy, and it'll be so difficult to get someone to help you. Everyone has some weird ego. My team leader was acting like he's the godfather, and even my mentor, who has just one more year of experience than me, once yelled at me, "Don't talk while I'm talking!". This happens to many new hires, which is why I'm mentioning it. People never talk to each other, even outside the company. Everyone looks sad inside! No life balance at all, and still, you learn nothing.