Epic Systems

Meaningful mission: You're writing software to help save people's lives. There's a general drive and urgency to keep up with the ever-expanding demands of healthcare professionals, and it can be pretty rewarding.

Ownership: You are given a lot of power to own and shape your own projects. It's very likely that you will become the foremost company expert on one or more functional areas in just a few years.

Food: Culinary at Epic is AWESOME. Food is outstanding and affordable.

Campus: It's cool; showing your friends and family around can be fun. But as an employee, you probably won't have much time to enjoy it, so don't consider it a major perk.

COVID: Epic's response has produced an absolute ton of high-quality memes.

Managers can be hit or miss. Some are excellent, some less so.

Work/life balance can be hard to maintain. If you're not a person that's comfortable saying "no" sometimes, you could easily become overworked.

Minimal effort is put into writing good code. If you care a lot about coding style, good architecture, or maintainable frameworks, then maybe look elsewhere. Epic hires a lot of people that don't care about these things at all, and it's reflected in their codebase. Likewise, if you want to code in super trendy languages or frameworks; you won't find those here.

Covid response has been unbelievably terrible. Management has gaslighted us, lied to us, censored us, broken promises, intentionally misinterpreted the governor's Covid order, wasted company resources, hired lapdogs to promote their plan, and demoted and/or fired people who disagree with them, all in the name of trying to get people back to working on campus as soon as possible. Quite frankly, it's unbelievable how much effort they've put into this, and without sharing any objective reason for doing so. It would take an entire book to describe all the terrible things that have been done.

A complete and truthful apology from Judy for the handling of Covid thusfar, along with indefinite work from home and ongoing upfront and transparent communication, is the only easy way to recover from this mess. You've already alienated so many people that even those steps might not be enough.