Epic Systems

I absolutely love being able to work in software R&D with a Bachelor's degree in English. Tinkering with software is one of my favorite hobbies, and Epic lets me polish and practice my skills and turn them into money.

• Lifelong learning
• More or less get to carve out your own space within the role

Compensation is a black box, and your only tool to inform decisions about whether you feel you're being fairly compensated is an anonymous forum/app. QMs make about half of what developers make to start, which you take with a grain of salt at the beginning, but slowly starts to eat away at your soul when you realize everyone around you makes twice as much as you do, and that gap widens every year.

New responsibilities are continually added to the QM job description, and compensation never catches up.

COVID response prioritized getting bodies back on campus over the health and well-being of employees and benefits of remote work.

Remote work provisions prioritize minimizing time worked away from campus over flexibility and autonomy.

Little room to specialize in the QM role. Too much "everybody spend X hours a week doing Y" and not enough "hey, let's have these people who are really good and efficient at Y do Y a lot."

Please try to prioritize employees more when designing internal policies and processes. Recent policy shifts seem to be driven more by some enigmatic agenda than by any vested interest in growing and maintaining your human capital.