Pros: You own your projects from start to finish.

Cons: Bad work-life balance. They expect at least 45 hours a week.

Pros: High impact on important areas of healthcare. Developers own every part of the software development process end to end (which is a pro and a con).

Cons: outdated technology and slow pace of progress.

Pros: - Pay is good, especially if your manager likes you; it could go very high. - If you are good at explaining what you're doing to your manager and don't try to overachieve, you can have a life working at Epic. - Food is actually good and cheap. - You have some freedom in the work you do, but it's very dependent on your manager. - Most people are nice and friendly and will help you if you ask. - Helping healthcare is sometimes nice.

Cons: - Management only looks at some metrics, which is used to push people to do more, often causing problems. - VB6 is probably one of the worst languages you can work on at this scale. Epic is way too big to be using a language that was intended for quick projects. - Some very special people are entitled to work in C#, and this makes it even worse for you. - The codebase is terrible, full of hacks, dead code, and magical constants (both VB6 and C# are affected, sadly), despite the two rounds of code review mandatory for every check-in. - Senior people, who built the horrible things you work on in VB6, are now working in C#, making your future life hell. - This depends on your team, but you will often just maintain an old codebase, fixing bugs and praying for a project. - There is no unit testing, integration testing, or any automated testing for that matter (for most teams at least). This means that things break easily and often. - The toolchain is very fragile. Even doing easy things such as backporting fixes to other versions takes hours and needs manual testing. - Depending on your team, you get to work some nights or weekends (and you are almost forced to stay). - Supervisors will throw as much work as they can, because their supervisor is asking them to do so. - None of the problems I encountered during my day job are even vaguely interesting from a CS standpoint. - Did I mention VB6 is horrible? - People leave left and right, making building a network inside the company very hard. - For the same reason, a lot of projects lack owners. A lot of code is actually unmaintained. - Most of the upper management doesn't code and has never written code inside the company. Most of the managers don't have a clue about the codebase they are managing. - Promotions are based on how much you fit into Epic's horrible culture, rather than merit.