Epic Systems

Epic takes great care of the software developer interns. Many of the same benefits/perks available to full-time employees are also available to interns. In addition to pretty competitive pay (for interns at least), Epic also provides interns with housing.

Having all of the interns living in the same apartment complex facilitated many great relationships to be formed. Finding others to carpool with was very easy. Epic had periodic intern events to help us get to know one another better. Some of the activities included:

• Board game nights
• Paintballing
• Water parks
• Hiking

As far as the work for the internship goes, Epic assigns projects to one or two interns to work on. The projects are prototypes of potential ideas that Epic wants to explore further.

Interns are expected to take charge of managing the pace of the project and making most of the design decisions. I am one who prefers autonomy to being micromanaged, so I loved the amount of freedom I was given to make the project how I wanted it to be. Some others may need more direction and would prefer to have their hand held a little bit more than me, though.

In my conversations with other interns, I was informed that some of the internship projects were not as well defined as mine was.

This required many of the interns to spend the first few weeks performing research rather than developing. This is indicative of real work, though, but I knew it irritated several interns.