Epic Systems

People. Epic has a lot of really smart, dedicated people who are great to work with.

Food is good.

Lot of responsibility right out of the gate for new grads. Developers are given responsibility for the whole design process, which certainly develops useful skills, even if it's a bit out of your wheelhouse.

Compensation is great, especially combined with the (relatively) low cost of living in the area.

• Outdated tech stack/development lifecycle. Easy to fall out of touch with the industry.
• Required to move to Madison, no WFH/remote work. Unless you're already from the area, not being allowed to work remotely is a big downside, and it seems the company has no plans to implement a remote work policy.
• Limited PTO.
• Hustle culture. I was told in one of my early performance reviews that I was expected to be working ~45 hours a week when I was logging 40.
• Required time logging for salaried employees. Supposedly for capacity planning, but it just felt really micromanage-ey.

Let your employees work remotely.

This is where the industry is going, and you are going to lose talent to this.

I know, I know, you've invested so much in the campus, but… sunk-cost fallacy.

It's going to hurt the company in the long run, if it hasn't already.

The campus is mostly for visiting customers to be impressed with. Employees mostly only see the inside of their offices – so why can't those offices be somewhere else?