Epic reviews

The stress of the project management job wears you down over time. While 80 hour work weeks are uncommon except at go-lives (despite what other reviews may say), 60 hour work weeks are common when traveling (only around 45-50 hours/week while in the office). The travel itself is draining as you're constantly in different places and usually not very exciting parts of the country. Besides stress, the job just becomes boring over time. Career advancement at Epic is almost non-existent. After the first few years of learning what to do, you're essentially doing the same thing over and over at different customers. It is also difficult to transition to other applications or roles. The software itself is overly complex, which leads to very long implementations with many issues arising. Development to improve some issues can be slow. Also, you encounter the same problems at many customers, which is incredibly frustrating. Top management is too centralized and they will not farm out any decisions. This may have worked in a company of 250 people, but does not work with 3300 people.

They were not honest about work hours and conditions in the interview. I got the impression in the interview that they were flexible about start times, where you worked, and how many hours— basically as long as you got the work done they didn’t care the time or place, Google kind of vibes. In training they said you can work what hours you want, but they really need you to be available 9-4. After a month of working there, I was told by my manager that I need to be working more like 50/55 even 60 hours per week instead of 40 (on a salary mind you with no overtime compensation.) I also had to be approved to work from home every month. Culture also felt kinda cultish. All in all, im not surprised why they were hiring 200+ people a month. A few months after I left the other woman on my team left. We were both there less than a year.