Epic Systems

The pay is good for developers (100k --> 115K after 1 year, plus 50k in stocks).

The work is interesting and feels meaningful (improving health care software).

My coworkers are all decent people who are very smart.

My immediate managers don't get in my way too much and give me plenty of autonomy.

The health insurance is fantastic and absurdly cheap.

Good WLB (as a developer, I never work more than 42 hours/week).

• Upper management is terrible (they deliberately ignored requests from employees about a meaningful DEI committee and offered a completely tone-deaf "alternative" to WFH/remote work that is intended to eliminate it).
• 401(k) matching is not great (50% up to 6%? Pretty sad honestly).
• Maintaining culture for the sake of culture, often to its own impediment.

It sucks because I like everything else about my job, but upper management has taken several actions over the past few months in response to social unrest and COVID-19 that have tarnished my view of the company.

You need to start listening to employees and offering actionable feedback for company policies instead of quarterly reviews that go nowhere. There has not been a Life at Epic survey in almost two years, as they know that employees are disgruntled and therefore don't want it on record. The response to remote work and DEI concerns was incredibly disheartening and has encouraged me to start looking for other jobs.

You also need to hold upper executives accountable. There have been several instances of completely inappropriate comments and actions taken by the President of Epic (Carl) that show he does not care about minority employees and DEI. At most other companies, this behavior gets you axed very quickly, but Epic has done next to nothing.