Pros: Good pay in a low COL area. People there are nice. Subsidized food, your own office (good and bad). You can set your boundaries and choose how hard you work. Your compensation will reflect your decision, and they are fine with what you choose. Company cares about your growth (within the company), so you have some freedom on what internal projects and responsibilities you want. You can choose more leadership versus technical as well. Good stepping stone to FAANG or other jobs, even if the tech stack leaves much to be desired (FAANG doesn't care, since they are going to train you anyways). In my opinion, if you can navigate Epic and its disaster of tech, everything else will come easy.

Cons: The platform is a behemoth tied together by a lot of super glue. Most of the business logic is written in a language called Mumps, which is incredibly limited in features. You can forget about data structures/classes and anything related to modern software development. For the most part, you're mostly doing CRUD with some extra steps in the middle. Be prepared to deal with a lot of spaghetti code. The inability to abstract business logic in a decent way is already hurting the company's ability to build features in a timely manner (Hyperspace Web was years behind schedule). There's no widespread automated unit testing or integration testing, but I hear they're trying to make it more standard. This reinforces the spaghetti and makes refactoring impossible and discouraged. Testing is done by QA type roles. You do get a taste of modern programming with TypeScript, but that's limited to FrontEnd development. However, it seems like the way the internal metrics are set up, Epic somehow prefers the company spend 100 hours each on 5 features (for a total of 500 hours) compared to 200 hours spent on proper architecture and then 30 hours spent each on the 5 features (350 hours).

Pros: Good pay for the Verona area. * The pay and great healthcare make Epic a good fit for people who enjoy a slower and stagnant lifestyle and plan on living in Verona for a long time. You're directly involved in the healthcare industry, so the work you do will most likely make a difference.

Cons: Location - The campus is in Verona, a suburb approximately 30 minutes away from Madison. - You will be living in Wisconsin, which isn't a great place to build an engineering career. For people who haven't lived in the Midwest, or come from major cities, I strongly advise against this. A dead end for young, aspiring software engineers/developers. - Most of the work you do here is useless for your future career. You may code in Mumps, VB, and other dated frameworks. None will boost your resume or prove helpful in finding that next job. - Any CS knowledge you have will be rarely used, as your work will focus more on Epic's internal software & practices. Terrible vacation policies - You will start out earning 0.84 vacation days per month (yep, it's per month) for the first 2 years. - Epic respects only 6 days worth of national holidays. Poor work/life balance - Covered in the other reviews, but you are expected to work at least 50 hours per week. Working/logging under 45 hours will most likely result in a strict talking-to from your TL. No overtime pay. Low pay as an engineer in general - Your starting salary is actually $10,000 less than you thought, because they pay you less while you are training for the first few months. - The signing bonus? It has to be repaid if you leave within the first year and partially repaid if you leave before 2 years. - The salary is significantly lower than most starting engineer salaries at large companies. Epic recruiters search in lots of college job boards & websites to find candidates. If you are a college grad, really think twice before joining.

Pros: The pay is good, and benefits are not bad. Work-life balance is manageable. The company is doing well. Lunch is not free, but it is better than eating out. You have your own small office.

Cons: Not good for professional development. The developing tools are not mainstream and outdated. Long winter.