Pros: Epic software makes a difference in healthcare. You can go to work knowing that you're doing something that matters. As you progress in time, you get more power to choose your projects and help direct the future of the product you work on. Great compensation, benefits, and work environment. Fun coworkers; having a sense of humor is important. Very stable business. Highly ethical corporate culture; no evil pointy-haired bosses here.

Cons: Epic's quality control process needs improvement. In some phases of development, you end up chasing bugs for months on end instead of doing anything new. That can be very frustrating. Poor sense of priority. Technical services and project managers frequently escalate problems that aren't important simply because they wouldn't get attention otherwise. This wastes a lot of people's time. The technology is way out of date. VB6 is 20+ years out of date, and Cache isn't used outside of healthcare. If you plan to get a job after Epic, learn new things on your own. Don't hold out for the web framework, because it is entirely proprietary and uses none of the JS frameworks that pretty much every other employer is looking for.

Pros: - Very good food (not free though) - Lots of ownership opportunities - Good insurance - You get to wear many hats (you are the PM, designer, etc. of your projects) - Lots of autonomy in your work - Immersion trips to meet customers are rewarding

Cons: Pay is not competitive given that so many other large tech companies allow remote work. If you're smart enough to get into Epic, you can get into a better company. Tech stack and infrastructure is terrible and not keen on improving (internal frameworks which are a nightmare to work with, tedious to work on). Internal tools are frustrating to use and terrible overall. WLB is variable but typically bad. Nearly everyone was a direct hire from college, so you'll be managed and mentored by people with no industry experience (blind leading the blind). * 401k match is mediocre * Mediocre vacation time and sick time Toxic culture, stressful. Overly aggressive deadlines. Upper management is out of touch with the current environment and is falling behind (no remote work, old fashioned values, etc.). Encourages people who rate the company positively on internal surveys to post reviews here, padding the stats. Not a pleasant place to be if you are a minority. Stack ranking / rank-and-yank / PIP culture like Amazon. The longer you stay and the better you perform, the more work they give you (intending to burn you out). Bad COVID response. Management processes are not transparent. Actively suppresses workers' rights in the Supreme Court (see Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis). Some coworkers are unpleasant to work with and have limited soft skills. I deeply regret staying for as long as I did. I should have left after a couple of years for a proper tech company.

Pros: Great atmosphere, interesting work, friendly people, progressive company. Many chances to improve your skills, great food, and plenty of ways to exercise on campus.

Cons: If this is your first job, there is no teaching as to how to do your job. You are given technical training, but you might be given a project on day one of training with no training as to how to handle that project.