Epic Systems

Beautiful campus. Great culinary team. I really like my coworkers, work well with them, and think they are good, smart people. We make products, and those products generally make the world a better place.

Upper management is self-selecting, out of touch, and grossly incompetent.

It's one thing for upper management to make mistakes; it's another to double and triple down on those mistakes and try to stamp out dissent from workers who are coming forward with data and good intentions. Management against workers is a pattern at this company (see Epic v. Lewis) and it's gotten worse, not better.

Most of the best people I work with have left in the last year or are seriously considering leaving.

No meaningful career progression for developers who don't want to get into people management.

HSWeb isn't a modern framework, and experience in it does not meaningfully translate to other tech companies.

It's one thing to want people to work from the billion-dollar campus you built. It's another thing to be a healthcare IT company and force 10,000 employees who can work well from their homes to come into the office, against the recommendations of the county health department, in the middle of the biggest spike in COVID cases Madison has ever had, in a county where there are no free ICU beds.

We're hemorrhaging our best people because they don't want to work here anymore, and our customers will pay the price for that in the long run.

You won't solve most of your problems until you recognize that you are responsible for most of your problems.

You hire smart people. Don't ignore them just because you don't like what they have to say.