Epic is not epic - Software Developer Epic Employee Review

1.0
Nov 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The cafeterias has good food, and the building design is cool. Relaxed dress code.

Cons

1. They overwork employees. Many people, including myself, were overworked, and as a result 8-9 hr days were extremely rare. It seemed like the higher position you had the less likely you were to be working long hours. 2. Not many experienced developers. Many of the people at Epic are young (0-3 years experience) and do not have good experience planning out projects step by step. As a first time developer I had no experience in planning a project. I had very little instruction on creation of the tickets and no one who pointed this out. 3. You will need to be able to stand up for all of "your" decisions. Even if you did not make them. 4. Epic uses old languages. Some languages that they use are MUMPs and VB. 5. They expect the developer to be the UI designer. On the project I worked on, my front end went through more than three large ui changes after it had already been approved and created. 6. They say they are open about the internal changes of the company, but when I was there they changed some of the rules and only told us about the ones people would like at the all Epic meeting. Looking back now I can remember multiple times this kind of thing happened. 7. You will need to be able to estimate the amount of time a project will take. Without experience this is very difficult. 8. You must move to Wisconsin. This may not be a problem for some people, but as someone from the south, the winters felt really long and the days were short.

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