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Great Mission, Poor Respect

Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at Epic Systems for 2 years
June 1, 2013
Madison, Wisconsin
3.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Strong culture/values and generally intelligent workforce.

Genuinely cares about their customers and improving health care.

Largely skips the pretension found in larger corporations.

Cons

Employees are not treated with respect. Internal prioritization and resource allocation frequently demonstrate obliviousness to the needs of employees to effectively do their jobs. Priorities are completely out of touch with where the real bottlenecks to productivity are and are often driven by the whims of upper management. Overhead needs to be reduced.

Advice to Management

As the company grows, more attention needs to be placed on what is happening internally.

Managers should be experienced in the areas of the teams they manage.

Resource allocation needs to be paid more attention to.

Workers need to be treated with more respect, as the high turnover rate and large learning curve are immensely costly to productivity.

More focus needs to be placed on the big picture and less on the details. Micromanagement of prioritization from higher-ups who don't take the time to understand context is counterproductive.

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