Epic Systems

Relatively good salary with regular raises and great benefits.

You will learn a lot, including valuable transferable skills, especially if this is your first full-time job.

In this role, you have to be creative with finding interesting growth opportunities for yourself if you’re not interested in going down the TL/Testing Captain route. A big part of why I left is because I started feeling stuck career-wise.

I also got really burned out, which isn’t uncommon here. Part of why I did not want to be a TL/TCap is because I didn’t admire the way some leaders on my team were treating team members, and I didn’t want to manage people in a system where it’s hard to protect your team members’ interests.

Another con for me is that Epic supports a broken healthcare system. It feels a bit unethical to work in such an extravagant campus, even though they say it’s not a big expenditure, because ultimately that money comes from patients. While there are lots of good development projects happening, some are also driven by the whims of insurance companies or profit-focused executives. I’m no longer in healthcare IT and don’t plan to go back, but if I did, I’d want to do something a little less “neutral.”

Take employee wellbeing seriously, and actually listen to people to understand what they need.