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Leave within 2 years if you care about your career

Quality Assurance
Former Employee
Worked at Epic Systems for 2 years
February 17, 2022
Madison, Wisconsin
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Good food

Beautiful campus

Individual or small offices

Educational opportunities

Cons
  1. Company doesn’t trust employees

Micromanagement is at its extreme at Epic. There is little space for autonomy.

  1. Paid Time Off is a joke

10 days for the first 2 years and 15 for 3 years & up. This is lower than the minimum of most tech companies of the same size.

  1. Team Leads are inexperienced in people management

Epic distrusts people management professionals because the leadership never had any people management professionals. Many TLs, especially those junior ones, are extremely good at demoralizing team members in astonishingly creative ways.

  1. Higher Management people live in their dreams

Judy is the captain-daydreaming of the company. She makes erratic decisions based on her overconfidence, ignorance, and arrogance. Judy and her team treat Epic as a school and employees as students that cannot make their own choices.

  1. Technology at Epic is at best outdated and not connected to the rest of the world

Seriously, if you stay too long at Epic, you will get stuck at Epic because your expertise will not be needed in the market.

  1. Epic thinks its culture is supreme and will do whatever is hideous to maintain it

COVID response, etc.

Advice to Management

Judy, and many of you leaders, “you have sat too long here for any good you have been doing.

Depart, I say, and let us have done with you.”

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2.0
Career Opportunities
2.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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