Epic Systems

Salary is fine for college graduates. Office building looks nice.

First, no balance between life and work. Your life is 100% up to your team lead. My team lead is not good at communicating with team members. He always pushed people to work, never motivated people, and sometimes demanded me to overwork until 9:00 pm twice a week. He does not care about people actually. Very very bad management style.

Secondly, training is not sufficient to support my work. As a reporting engineer, I need to use Crystal Reports to design reporting templates. However, I did not receive Crystal Report and SQL training. My team lead and a lady on my team gave me many projects which I had no idea how to work with and I am told that I should figure out myself from company's web site and teach myself everything with very limited amount of time. I have to say, the work environment is not supportive.

Thirdly, limited space for promotion & job is very boring because employees will never given diverse responsibilities. If you are a software developer, everyday you program, code, debug, QA, and make documentation. If you are a project manager, you travel extensively to implement software. That's all.

Fourthly, the location is bad. Verona is not suitable for young professionals to live and work. Epic seems the only big company in greater Madison area.

To sum up, I strong recommend people do not work for Epic System if they have other options. If Epic is the only company that give you the offer, you can take it but should remain a proactive job hunter to find other opportunities from Day 1. The turnover rate in Epic is very very high, so it can be a strong evidence to prove the information I provide here is correct.

Good luck!

Management team should adjust or change team leads' incentives. Many team leads, including mine, only focus on their own promotion, so they push people so hard without taking caring of or motivating team members. They treat people like machines. Seriously.