Epic Systems

Salary is fine for college graduates.

Office building looks nice.

First, there is 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 p.m. 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 Reports and SQL training. My team lead and a lady on my team gave me many projects that I had no idea how to work with, and I was told that I should figure it out myself from the company's website and teach myself everything with a very limited amount of time. I have to say, the work environment is not supportive.

Thirdly, there is limited space for promotion, and the job is very boring because employees are never given diverse responsibilities. If you are a software developer, every day 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 to be the only big company in the greater Madison area.

To sum up, I strongly recommend people do not work for Epic Systems if they have other options. If Epic is the only company that gives you an offer, you can take it but should remain a proactive job hunter to find other opportunities from Day 1.

The turnover rate at Epic is very, very high, so it can be strong evidence to prove the information I provide here is correct.

Good luck!

The 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 care of or motivating team members. They treat people like machines, seriously.