Epic Systems

High pay for the area, great benefits, and great coworkers.

They work folks hard, and you have several crunch times throughout the year where you are doing 10-15 more hours per week for a few weeks.

I'm fine with it, and I enjoy the crunch a bit, but you need to learn to say no if you don't want to be overloaded with work.

Overall, I like the company, and all the people I work with.

I think management has been doing some silly things:

• Changing the work-from-home policy around extreme weather conditions (removed it, and gave 2 work-from-home days instead)
• Confusing messaging about expected hours in the office (many folks use flexible schedules, which they love, and company messaging was required hours of 9-to-4 in the office, but also that this always was the policy, which it was not)
• They limited personal interests folks could have on their inter-epic profile page to 15.

Overall, the impression is that upper-level folks are spending time on things which don't matter, when there are serious things they could be doing (for example, we have something of a TL shortage).

Overall, I have liked everyone I've met and think they are smart, compassionate folks, so maybe the upper management is like that too and just isn't explaining their reasoning well?