Good Start, Bad Culture
Good Start, Bad Culture
Epic can be a great place to work. The campus is beautiful, the work is rewarding, and the pay and benefits are hard to beat. If you are starting as a software developer, you are almost guaranteed to have a good first year here. You will learn a lot about managing technical projects and be given autonomy over your work. Mileage may vary for customer-facing roles, but for developers, folks tend to enjoy their first year. I know I did.
Epic has a lot of surface-level pros, but once you gain more experience, you will start to see the poor work culture that exists behind the scenes:
- Normalization of long work hours.
- Secrecy among upper management.
- Unrealistic development practices prone to issues.
- Grossly mismanaged and underscoped projects.
This one isn't really a con, but do note, Epic has a monolithic codebase that will be forever facing a software entropy problem.
The company needs to take a step back and reevaluate what is and isn't sustainable. I think we all know the current state of the Epic isn't feasible long term.
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I applied at a college career fair and heard back within a week or so. They asked for a resume, and shortly after, had me schedule a phone interview and a skills assessment. The phone interview was straightforward and mainly seemed to gauge motivat
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I was contacted by the recruiter by email and set a telephone interview. The interview was pretty easy; the questions were very general. You can find suggested answers on Glassdoor. Then I was asked to finish a technical test. The test consisted of
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They contacted me through a university recruiting site and invited me to apply for the position. You were able to mark whether you were invited to apply by a recruiter, and this sent you straight to getting a phone interview and coding challenge. Th
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United StatesMarch 14, 2018I applied at a college career fair and heard back within a week or so. They asked for a resume, and shortly after, had me schedule a phone interview and a skills assessment. The phone interview was straightforward and mainly seemed to gauge motivat
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Montreal, Quebec, CanadaJune 1, 2015I was contacted by the recruiter by email and set a telephone interview. The interview was pretty easy; the questions were very general. You can find suggested answers on Glassdoor. Then I was asked to finish a technical test. The test consisted of
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United StatesNovember 8, 2017They contacted me through a university recruiting site and invited me to apply for the position. You were able to mark whether you were invited to apply by a recruiter, and this sent you straight to getting a phone interview and coding challenge. Th
