Pros: You can learn a lot about health care. I enjoy the everyday life doing development using internal tools like EpicStudio and EMC2, which makes code integration much easier.

Cons: The technical [stack] is outdated. I am using VB6 for client development and cache for server-side coding.

Pros: You work with smart people who are trying their absolute best to make something great out of a dinosaur tech stack, which has a fun hacker feel to it when you're ignoring the impact of the technical debt. The food is actually pretty great.

Cons: - You are viewed as a replaceable unit of labor. - Management does not trust you or care about your wellbeing. - If you are struggling mentally or experiencing burnout, and you don't perform well, management will make no effort to intervene and help you out. - Some senior developers will treat you like you're dumb, when they probably couldn't get a job outside Epic at this point because they lack basic modern technical and conceptual developer skills. - The way HR pairs incoming new hires with teams doesn't make any sense, and makes them appear completely out of touch with what the company is even doing. - Management is out of touch with the reality of the industry and doesn't understand that they are fighting a losing battle in the long term. - Performance metrics are narrow and don't account for your whole job (while being subjectively weighted by high performers), despite affecting whether you get fired or not. - It's impossible to ask questions without feeling like you're wasting somebody's time, and communicating this with management rarely results in change. As soon as you start asking a reasonable amount of questions, you'll be accused of asking too many questions and not doing enough research on your own, which rarely makes any sense considering how poorly documented and designed most of the codebase is. - It appears that management doesn't possess the ability to self-reflect or empathize with coworkers. This is because most managers are picked from the pool of high performers, so they act more as gatekeepers of acceptable performance, despite obviously being biased against what an average acceptable workload should be. - The performance metric system just makes most developers petty and pits them against each other instead of fostering an environment for collaborative growth. - Most software developers writing web code are out of touch with modern web development and still think they're writing Visual Basic. They will try to make you rewrite JavaScript to include micro-optimizations that only apply to VB.

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).