Epic Software Developer reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(957 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

77% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Epic with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 957 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Epic is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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957 reviews
1.0
Aug 11, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, culinary, campus design, most employees

Cons

I’ve overlooked some flaws in the 8+ years I’ve worked here, and maybe it was better then. But in the past months, the company continues to reveal how repugnant it’s absurd, opaque management structure truly is and it is very disturbing. The other reviews about the COVID response say enough and I can confirm it’s true. But what’s more unsettling is what the response itself says about the culture. This company “culture” is toxic to the core. “Culture” is used to justify indefensible and immoral actions. It rewards secrecy and complacency and and punishes those who speak out for what’s right. Power is concentrated in the hands of a small group of very wealthy individuals who operate without accountability and apparently morals. The result should be downright terrifying. If you accept a job here, know that the only ones left at the higher ranks of management are the blindly obedient ones who only tell their bosses what they want to hear. Others will take dishonest actions out of fear for their job and paycheck. The result is a corporation that can never advocate for your safety or well being

2.0
Aug 11, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great compensation and co-workers. Almost everyone at the company is incredibly smart. I also really enjoyed immersion trips where Epic allows their developers to see the software in use by their customers, which is eye opening.

Cons

Horrible PTO (6.5 holidays & 2 weeks of vacation), compared to similar companies. The company culture is quite toxic because they encourage an unhealthy work-life balance. I was working an average of 45 hours a week and my TL said I should try to average 50 hours even though I was finishing all of my work. Upper management has tarnished their reputation in most of their employees eyes since COVID began. Every decision they've made regarding their covid-19 response has been against the health of their employees. Once the economy settles down again, Epic will see a large amount of talent leave the company.

2.0
Aug 10, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Meaningful mission: you're writing software to help save people's lives. There's a general drive and urgency to keep up with the ever expanding demands of healthcare professionals and it can be pretty rewarding. - Ownership: you are given a lot of power to own and shape your own projects. It's very likely that you will become the foremost company expert on one or more functional areas in just a few years. - Food: Culinary at Epic is AWESOME. Food is outstanding and affordable. - Campus: It's cool, showing your friends and family around can be fun. But as an employee, you probably won't have much time to enjoy it, so don't consider it a major perk. - Covid: Epic's response has produced an absolute TON of high quality memes

Cons

- Managers can be hit or miss. Some are excellent, some less so. - Work/life balance can be hard to maintain. If you're not a person that's comfortable saying "no" sometimes, you could easily become overworked. - Minimal effort put into writing *good* code. If you care a lot about coding style, good architecture, maintainable frameworks, then maybe look elsewhere. Epic hires a lot of people that don't care about these things at all, and it's reflected in their codebase. Likewise, if you want to code in super trendy languages or frameworks; you won't find those here. - Covid response has been unbelievably terrible. Management has gaslighted us, lied to us, censored us, broken promises, intentionally misinterpreted the governor's Covid order, wasted company resources, hired lapdogs to promote their plan, and demoted and/or fired people who disagree with them, all in the name of trying to get people back to working on campus as soon as possible. Quite frankly, its unbelievable how much effort they've put into this, and without sharing any objective reason for doing so. It would take an entire book to describe all the terrible things that have been done.

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