Epic Systems

• Good for developing soft skills.
• Pay is solid starting out of college.

Epic is unique in that devs can own their own projects, controlling the full lifecycle and learning how to manage the development, while also having a say on high-level design choices. You learn to communicate with different teams and different roles.

• Meaningful impact as per Epic's reach.
• People are kind and respectful.
• Food is great.

• Overworking and 50+ hour workweeks are expected.

• Work/life balance can be difficult to manage.

• Technology is Epic-specific and fairly old.

• Technical skills are somewhat non-transferrable.

• Can feel isolated at times.

• Coming into Epic as a new dev hire, I found it difficult to meet people on the team and form relationships.

• Most of my time is spent in my office, with biweekly meetings with team members (this is more of a team-by-team culture, however).