Epic reviews

High degree of micro management. You are expected to log every hour of your week in a excel sheet which will be reviewed by your Team Lead. You have to work a minimum of 50 hours/week, (including new year/thanks giving weeks), if you go below that, you can expect taunting comments from your Team Lead. Your hard work will never be appreciated, even if you work for 60+ hours, you will not be appreciated a bit. But if you make a single mistake, you will be held accountable in every possible way. Most development is done in Mumps and VB6, you will be outdated in the job market if you work here for a couple of years. Coding in Mumps is a nightmare, things will break in places that you don't expect . Only if you are good at assembly style programming, you will like this language. Work will creep in to your weekends and holidays. It was not unusual for me to receive mails over the weekend/late hours to finish some work. You have to commute to office even if there is a blizzard(yes it happens more than twice a year in Madison). Most companies will emphasize to work from home on such situations. The company doesn't really care about your personal life and no body ever will bother about your workload/stress/problems. Your team lead is there to assign you work and more work period. The beautiful building/campus is built with only one thing in mind, to impress the clients It is even more difficult to get out of the company for three reasons. - You cannot work in health care for a year. - You can't find time to give telephonic interviews. Taking half hour break in a typical work day is difficult, you have to inform your Team Lead and a couple of others for that. - Your Mumps/VB6 experience are worthless and any company would think twice before even considering your resume.

- Poor work life balance. Expect to work minimum of 50 hrs/week - Technology us outdated. client side is VB and server side is chronicles. - You will have to code in M language. No one I know uses this language anymore, so you wont be able to market this skill. This is not even cache. Cache has so many features and Epic doesnt use any of them. - Epic has been saying that they will be migrating to .NET for a while now. Not all the code will be migrated to .NET. Only some apps. - Epic sends its employees to onsite and that time is not counted. You are still expected to finish off your work even when you are travelling. - In Epic you dont know what your TL is thinking about you, everything is so secret. You dont get enough feed back from your TL. - Some of the TLs lack people skills. They just want to get work done. They dont know how to respect their team members. I have seen some good people leave just because they hated their TLs - Lack of communication between team members at personal level. Everyone sits in their own rooms and the only interaction they have among themselves is when you have a question related to work or during meetings. - Everything you do as a developer is measured. Lot of micro management. - Some get promoted to TL soon, within 2 years. I dont know the criteria. TL decides your career/future. If you dont become a TL within 2 years, forget about becoming a TL