Epic Systems

• Really lax about vacation
• Well-defined benefits
• 3% 401k match & 100% coverage healthcare

• Weirdly strong anti-WFH sentiment from upper management.
• Expect you work 42+ hours a week (and apparently that's on the better side).
• You WILL be stuck using a whole bunch of proprietary stuff, though thankfully that's no longer so much the case.
• The campus is just too big. Do not recommend. It looks cool at first, but that's how they get you.

Allow unionization or something, or at least be honest.

Dancing around the subject with your pseudo-progressive "we share profits and it's a private company so it's driven by the workers" to put yourself in a better light than Cerner/Meditech/McKesson/whoever when in reality you are barely better than a regular tech company about profit sharing and company direction is just sad ($2500 in non-voting shares with 5-year vesting each year and you have to pay for it all??? This company makes billions!).

Don't weasel your way around the fact that the healthcare industry in America is just really bad for the consumer right now and that Epic enables them in a very real way. Don't try to justify working with companies like Walmart, CVS Health/Aetna, etc., even if you have to for market share/network effect reasons. It comes off as disingenuous.

Take an active stance against the status quo and loudly support M4A/Single Payer initiatives, like you do for FHIR, price transparency, etc., and really live up to the "Do Good" part of your motto. Food banks and sustainability are good and necessary, but your focus is healthcare. Work on improving that first.

You keep talking about wanting to avoid being seen as the "big bad," but this literally is the ticket to permanently overcoming that barrier, because EMRs are still going to be a thing in a single-payer system; you literally work with the NHS and Scandinavian public health systems.

Oh, and allow WFH. Your campus is just way too big for any reasonable chance to meet up, especially if your project has a bunch of loaners who work 3 buildings away, so it all ends up on Teams anyways.