Epic reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(6,084 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

69% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Epic has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,084 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Epic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jul 28, 2017

Everything negative you've ever heard about Epic is completely true

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Will hire you with no experience -Food is pretty good -Starting salaries are competitive -A decent notch on the resume: people in consulting, software, and medicine generally know what Epic is

Cons

-Cultish culture that can be very off-putting if you are a free thinking person who enjoys having a sense of independent thought, if you ever speak out against anything Epic does you will quickly be labeled a non believer and your time at Epic will be short and miserable -Very boring yet at the same time stressful work -Long hours, the company takes advantage of young naive fresh college grads and overworks them, Epic has been sued 4 separate times for overtime pay and has not changed anything, the arbitration agreement they imposed was deemed illegal by a federal court in Chicago so Epic appealed the ruling and it is going to the Supreme Court later this year, yes Epic is willing to be the flagship labor case for employers screwing over their workers, I suggest googling this and reading about it for yourself -Your boss is likely to be a 23 or 24 year old with no management experience who knows nothing about managing people other than giving more and more work and then rating you on how well you perform based on secretive selectively applied criteria, if you ask how you are rated or why they won't tell you -Very high turnover, the people with decent degrees and standards for themselves don't stay more than a year or two, others are frequently fired over relatively small things, (for the record I was not asked to leave but many of my coworkers were), the ones who stay are the easily brainwashed who get trapped into dying a slow cheese curd filled death in Wisconsin at a company that will abuse you psychologically and then easily get rid of you with no second thought I would not work here unless I had no other options. If you do decide to work at Epic start planning your escape plan in the background from day one.

3.0
Jul 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and fairly free rein for developers, good food

Cons

- Very little managerial direction - sink-or-swim professional development philosophy - horrible client-side technology and abysmal codebase that actively hinders quality development

5.0
Apr 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The work is very challenging and engaging. You have a lot of autonomy, and control over your direction. The vision and culture of the company is strong. Almost everybody you work with is really smart and cares about what they do, and why. The company really is a large group of people who feel that their work can make healthcare better. Epic has such a strong focus on education that I feel one could spend a life of learning while at Epic - from application certifications, to other external seminars or technical certifications. Because Epic does everything they can to hire really good people, a lot of the people hired each month tend to be right out of college (smart/good people tend to not bounce around too much after their first few years somewhere). This means that with the growth Epic has had, the staff overall is young and ambitious. Some may feel "peer pressure" to also be ultra-ambitious, but to others it's energizing.

Cons

Since the work is engaging, and since Epic hires people who tend to be ambitious, a lot of people get themselves into a position of working a lot more than they want to. If they're unable to approach the job with maturity in terms of understanding when you're burning out, or Team Lead doesn't help you recognize when you're burning out, then.. you'll burn out.

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