Epic Systems

TL;DR: Fired the day before stock vesting. Manager baits you to quit so you don't get unemployment. Managers really want you to do nothing controversial, as nothing can come back on them.

I worked hard. My dev metrics were in the top 25% every quarter.

This resulted in me receiving more feedback than most developers because I did more stuff. I also worked on controversial work that sparked lots of design discussion. (I am a 3-year dev; I am not dumb and know what we were doing was difficult, new, and unproven.) As a result, my team lead noticed the high issue counts on designs and started micromanaging me to "get better." He started saying stuff like my time logging was inaccurate; I actually spent 5 hours on something instead of 6, like my time log said.

Anyway, after 1 year, they just had a bunch of meaningless stuff like this they used to fire me right before stock vesting. I've seen the same thing happen to four of my team members, and I should have seen it coming.

Did I deserve to be fired? I don't think so. I think if I said yes, I'd be drinking my TL's copium.

Epic is a great place to work if you want to be offered stock options that could never actually vest. The whole way they make money is people leaving before the breakeven point.

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