Epic Systems

I met some great people at Epic. Everyone gets a mentor, and I really liked mine.

I don't work at the company anymore, but I still keep in touch with my mentor. I also had other relationships with people who were always willing to help me figure things out. I could not have made it as long as I did without them.

So, when I was applying at Epic, I was reading other reviews and noticed many people saying that Epic demands very long hours and may work you to the bone. I thought, maybe if I set up boundaries with my time, I can make it work. So I only worked 45-50 hours a week most of the time. But I could never get my workload done in that time, which caused lots of stress. If I worked more than this, I didn't have time to take care of myself outside of work and also ended up stressed. I couldn't find a way to take care of myself in this job, and the good pay just wasn't worth it.

I was also originally hired as a technical writer. One month after I started, the writing team was disbanded and I was told I would start software testing instead. With little to no training, I was thrown into software testing with a full workload. Whenever I couldn't get my load done, because I was completely in over my head, I was talked to about my time management, as if perfect time management would just solve everything.

Admittedly, my time management wasn't great. But it was mostly because I had been worn down into a shell of myself, and I just couldn't keep managing my time at a near impossible rate while feeling so incredibly burnt out.

Epic, you know what you're doing. You hire people, burn them out while you get as much work out of them as possible, and then replace them when they quit. Even if that gets the job done for you, it's not ethical.

Listen to your employees, and start putting their well-being first. For real.