Vantaggi
- Epic's product are awesome and they are better then their competitors by a mile (though some are catching up).. It dominates competition in almost all respects (which is rare in a customer centric market) - Epic has an amazing work culture (customers who buy Epic are getting value for their money. Folks who join fresh out a college have a great chance of understanding how success comes about - hard work and focus. - The campus is nice and almost a tourist attraction in its own right, though full time folks have nary an opportunity to enjoy it.. - Every employees gets a room (though again growth means some folks share) and believe me sometimes it makes a difference.
Svantaggi
Let me preface this by saying that I work hard and am okay with giving 80 hours a week. In fact my advice to folks who are applying to Epic, its not just a software company, its software and services company (almost akin to consulting) and expect to put in long hours. Stop whining about work/life balance - it gets made not given. and realize that working at a company is about fitting with a culture (i.e. a give and take). - Epic is made to an effect in its founder's image. There are things Judy believes and hence Epic does. But as the company grows its not adapting. So if you clash with "Epic's" ideals it will be difficult for you. - There is a weird dichotomy in that we try to be open and transparent to customer as much as possible but the management decided to not do the same for its employees. It almost smacks of patronizing attitude towards employees. For example the fact that we do stackranking was news to most when it came out in the blogs. Feedback from the lead is always "tangential" and there is always a perception among employees about higher-than-average firings (and the management seems to not do much about this perception). - A lot of your career advance is strongly linked to the types of projects you work on. Infrastructure projects are not visible and high impact and essentially you will end up wasting a whole release unless you take up projects on your own.(this is more for software devs though) - While I was leaving we were trying to hire more to software devs to compensate for growth and were not doing a very good job of it. Essentially we seemed to be throwing more money at the problem without trying to address the systemic issues. Full disclosure I left because I wanted to work on something other than Epic's stuff.