Epic Systems

Epic's company philosophy is amazing, and I completely agree and support it. All employees are treated as equals, despite how long you've worked there, and they're also all expected to contribute equally. It is not uncommon for the CEO to face the whole company during the monthly staff meeting, and for people to address her in an open-mic setting.

Everyone works in an office; there are no cubicles, not even for interns, which greatly helps with staying on task. At the same time, I feel like it is easy to collaborate with other employees. I get the sense that Epic really values and cares about its users and helping them to do their job better, and I know firsthand that Epic cares about its employees. I also really appreciated how Epic gives each employee training in health care, albeit a general overview.

The internship program was well-organized, and there were many activities sponsored by Epic during the summer that interns could participate in:

• Theme park trip
• Rock climbing
• Bowling
• Lots of food
• Paintballing
• Hiking etc.

Oh, and housing was covered, too!

As a side note, I really enjoyed the Madison area, especially the local Ultimate Frisbee league; it's very well-organized.

Even after thinking it over for a few minutes, it's difficult to come up with something that I didn't like about my internship at Epic.

Epic is a large company, and like with any large-scale piece of software, there's going to be a learning curve when you start to add to the code, no matter how experienced you are as a developer.

Expand the internship program and get the word out to undergraduate students about your company. I had never heard of Epic before.