Epic reviews

Upper management is extremely misguided. Constant unenforced errors for the last 5 years. Absurd decisions that should be business case studies. With ~5 people in the know, they announced a reorg for the entire 12k+ company to be enacted in 2 weeks (forget that internal data will break and we won't be able to bill customers). Then reversed course 6 months into the attempt. This healthcare company attempted to force a return to office at the height of the pandemic. People had to go on the news with blacked out faces out of fear. They begrudgingly reversed course after pressure from Dane County. Judy (CEO) proclaimed multiple times that healthcare software is more complex than rocket science and even made t-shirts to sell that anecdote. Judy and senior leaders have been around forever. They had success early, so they're surrounded by "yes men" that don't push back on the terrible ideas that get enacted. They pretend to be whimsical and benevolent when they're actually treating everyone like children and doing shady things. They're a near-monopoly with an 80 yr old CEO that refuses to admit she's lost her edge.

I am writing this to myself, in case I ever look back at Epic and think "Hmm, maybe it wasn't so bad. Maybe I should work there again..." Don't forget: - how no one warned you that you would be on one of the hardest apps and how you had virtually no say in it - how you were staffed in the middle of your second week even though you were led to believe you'd have 6 months of training - how almost everyone you knew/cared about left within a year - how many times you cried in your office from being overwhelmed with work (on average, every 2 weeks) - the amount of dread you would feel on Sunday, and how you would start work on Sunday just to deal with the growing pile of emails - how much you hated your window-less, sun-less internal office - how you felt like you couldn't say "no" to anything and how often you were "volun-told" into taking on more responsibilities you didn't want - how many times you stayed late til 8 pm - all the times 7 am meetings were scheduled. All the times 6 am meetings were scheduled. - how Covid cases were hid from you in order to keep traveling and how management reacted to you finding out and wanting to get tested - how miserable everyone was all the time - how you were asked to sacrifice important personal events for work - how the non-compete made it difficult to find a job - how much you hated this job! Do not come back!