Epic Systems

• Pay is good (for those fresh out of college)
• Health insurance is good (no copays, low premiums even for family plans)
• Working with intelligent/motivated people is nice
• Free milk, juice, and popcorn (hmmmm...those things also get my young children excited)
• If you want to talk about work before work, during work, and outside of work, this is the place!

Unrealistic tenure to reap rewards that people talk about (sabbatical, for example). Very few people actually make it five years.

Turnover rate is so incredibly high for all roles. As an example, 90% of my IP team (QA and R&D) left the company over the last six months, leaving people scrambling to take over projects that no one has any idea about.

People are continuously asked (daily, weekly) to work harder, take on more work, and take on things they have no experience in so the company can continue to move forward.

If you have a family, you either will never see them or they will leave you because, as a good human being, you want to do the right thing and work hard for a company that supposedly makes a difference.

Having to act like you are an implementation specialist (or an "expert" on your application) on required Go-Lives even though you can't answer any clinicians' questions because you aren't in implementation.

As mentioned in practically every review, the work/life balance is pretty horrendous. If you continuously say "no" (in order to not feel forced to work 50-60 hours a week), those young millennials who don't mind working 50-60 hours a week will make you look like you just don't care about doing the right thing.

The slide, the art, the themed buildings are similar to working at an amusement park, versus paying to enjoy an amusement park. Those that work here are too busy to care about or enjoy the cute little themes and art. The novelty wears off quickly!

The average tenure is about 2.8 years (outside of SD and administration). Caution!

Stop requiring your TLs to ask everyone else to pick up the slack when people quit (and then being disappointed in them when they don't pick up the slack and get projects completed on time).

Also, respect those people who want to work hard but can't put in the late nights and weekends outside of the 45 hours that they've already put in during the week.

We've got families and kids to hang out with. We love them and we only get one lifetime to do things right... we can't spend more time at work.

Please respect that.