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Great salary. Work/life balance is OK for Devs (not great for PMs and TS)

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Epic Systems for less than 1 year
April 14, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin
3.0
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Pros
  • Excellent campus
  • Great cafeteria
  • Good salary
  • Good job security
  • It is satisfying to see the features you developed (as a Software Developer) being used by customers! (I cannot say the same about Technical Services and Project Management folks)
Cons
  • Dealing with demanding customers can be very difficult.
  • Most of the company still uses VB for front-end development (increasingly C#/ASP.Net is being used). The backend is completely done in an obscure environment called 'cache' (the language is called "M"). So, the developers get less and less marketable skills.
  • The review system is still "Closed" (i.e., you do not know what your review was; all you see is some increase in your salary at the end of the year).
  • Sometimes the company feels like a "cult".
Advice to Management
  • Please make the review system OPEN (i.e., at least tell each employee how he/she did. You don't have to tell everyone's review to everyone else).

  • Please focus on employee career development. Not everyone wants to be branded as a "VB" or "Cache" developer.

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