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Where software engineers go to die

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Epic Systems for 4 years
August 15, 2017
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Nothing worth mentioning. You soon realize the fancy buildings are more for customer tours and UGMs rather than for the employees. The food is somehow decent and cheap.

But that becomes a necessity since the office is in the middle of nowhere with not enough restaurants to handle the capacity.

Cons

Heavy Kool-Aid drinkers. They refuse to believe anyone else can be smarter than them.

Use dumb metrics to rank employees; those reports themselves are bug-ridden.

TLs generally lord their special powers over employees. They have no organization, which leads to a lot of confusion.

Several TLs, including my own, abused the above metrics to show themselves as better than others. This only helps them and is harmful to the company in the long run.

Huge, enormous, gigantic technical debt. As technology catches up to the healthcare domain faster, they will struggle to keep up.

Advice to Management

Stop pandering to customers and the egos of certain people in upper management. Clean house and focus on technology instead.

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