Epic Systems

• Great pay
• Fantastic health insurance
• Incredible culinary team
• Feels very stable
• Individual offices

Individual offices can make you feel very isolated and make it hard to bond with your team, most especially during COVID times.

The company as a whole is very stuck in the past, both in terms of culture and software.

The codebase is enormous and very messy; lots of bad code patched with more bad code piled on top.

Internal documentation is scarce and rarely updated.

The training is incredibly extensive (2-3 months to complete), but you don't learn almost anything that you'll use in your day-to-day work.

The company has a severe case of "Not-invented-here syndrome." For instance, rather than just using React for their newer stuff, they tried to create their own version of React, which just ended up being much clunkier and less useful. Finally, in the last year, they've relented and decided to just use React after all.