Pros: Great coworkers. Pay can be good. The job can be flexible depending on your role. Madison can be a pro or a con. You really are working on a product you can feel good about, and interacting with healthcare professionals and learning about what they do can be really fun and rewarding.

Cons: Patronizing culture. Upper management thinks they know best, and not all feedback is treated the same. There's a fair amount of opacity. For example, there's a ranking system that feeds into your raises and bonuses somehow. No one is allowed to know their rank, and feedback for employees around growth is filtered through this fact that they can't know what they're being compared against or what circumstances are holding them back if their manager isn't good at handling this type of feedback system. The type of development you're doing won't get you far elsewhere. Cache isn't used elsewhere, so the most translatable coding skills are if you work on web development. There's a lot of overtime. 45 hours is the average expectation. Not all teams/devs work that much, but there's a lot of expectation that to be excellent, you need to put in a lot of work, and you really need to be responsible for your own work/life balance. Epic has a lot of sink or swim mentality, and a feeling of "people couldn't make it" if they leave because they don't work well there, regardless of many of those people being successful devs elsewhere. At Epic, you're expected to manage your own project: define, scope, design, develop, and ensure testing timelines and quality are met, etc. There are other people who are also supposed to do these things, but ultimately, it's the developer's responsibility. This means a lot of pieces that are usually done by other roles at other companies are at least partly dev responsibilities at Epic. It means a lot of devs who "don't succeed" at Epic do succeed elsewhere, where they can focus on dev alone. This isn't always true at Epic, but I saw it enough to believe it's a trend.

Pros: You get to work with smart people. There are interesting problems to solve. You make a difference for people using Epic's medical software. The pay is good for the area.

Cons: Fast-paced, high-stress environment. Nowhere near enough vacation time. The CEO is quirky and stubborn and likes to do things exactly her way, which is not necessarily the best way. Right now, trying to get everyone back on campus because of "collaboration," which makes zero sense as everyone will be doing remote meetings anyway. The company does not care for its employees.

Pros: Decent company, which is located in a very scenic location. You get to work with young, talented people. They will pay you a handsome salary, even if you are a fresher.

Cons: You get to work with young, talented people. They will pay you a handsome salary, even if you are a fresher. But, money is not all; this kind of work can take you nowhere. I don't even like the interview process.