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Good Income/Benefits at Cost of Growth and Learning

Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at Epic Systems for 4 years
November 10, 2020
3.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • Pay is very good (relative to the Madison area cost of living) for a job right out of college.
  • Benefits are also very good (e.g., health insurance, retirement matching).
Cons
  • Have to exclusively work with old, outdated, and highly in-house-customized tech stacks and tooling.
  • Lack of growth of transferable skills.
  • Learning plateaus very quickly (within a year or two at most), with most of that learning being healthcare domain knowledge in any case.
  • Developers are required to do all foundational user research and design work (though without being given access to real users to actually do any of that, so it ends up just becoming guesswork that's squabbled over internally with a veneer of being "user-centered").
Advice to Management

Can't think of anything.

From the company's perspective, as long as the pay/benefits are good enough to retain you against the litany of costs, it works out well for them and their enterprise customers.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
3.0

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