Epic Systems

My team works on some cool stuff, but I’m an outlier. On campus, the food is good. The campus is fun for about 6 months, until you get sick of walking 20 minutes to your meetings.

Epic's culture has quickly taken a nosedive and created a hostile work environment. Management has taken every single opportunity to silence employees and shut down every possible channel for feedback, all while pretending they are looking for feedback. The constant gaslighting is mentally draining and makes me embarrassed to work here.

The best developers who can find other jobs are fleeing, leaving only the Kool-Aid drinkers and below-average performers. There’s a good reason the GlassDoor rankings have taken a sharp nosedive.

You’ll work on an ancient tech stack, so your skills won’t be transferable. The primary database language is an absolute nightmare; just go look up some MUMPS code before applying. The big company project right now is “Web Migration,” where people are just rote translating VB activities into a custom, monstrous web framework. This has been going on for years, with no signs of stopping.

The internal tools are impressively bad. Our custom version of Jira takes about 2 minutes just to open up, and if you have to unplug your laptop, it just crashes. All developers work in one huge shared environment which is constantly breaking because, of course, it is. Server code is barely version-controlled. As soon as you press “Save” in their ugly custom IDE, it immediately pushes your changes out to all your coworkers.

The CEO often refers to the company as a “Software Factory,” with the clear implication to developers that you are just a replaceable cog.

Judy needs to retire. She’s clearly become totally disconnected from the actual work. Carl should be fired for embarrassingly bad management. Rollback everything they’ve done in the past 8 months would be a good start.