Have your escape plan ready... - Recensione dipendente - Project Manager presso Epic

Epic does a good job making you feel awful about yourself and that you're not good enough. Don't let them gaslight you and know that this company, its leadership, and its policies are not normal. Get what you can and get out. 1. Feedback and management. Any constructive feedback you receive hurts you severely. Your negative feedback will haunt you for your entire career. Regardless of its validity, your manager (team lead) is likely to side with whoever put in the feedback. Nobody has your back at this company, so watch out. The only way to escape poor feedback at Epic and continue growing in your career is to switch teams (apps) or leave the company. 2. Diversity or a lack thereof. Epic is a very white company. They have D&I efforts, but there's obviously a major culture issue when almost all of your tenured employees and leadership team is white. You can't become more diverse through hiring alone. Epic makes no effort to maintain minority candidates, develop them, or put them in positions to succeed. If you fit the Epic mold, you have a bright future. 3. Epic offers no work from home policy. With a high travel role, a majority of your meetings are conducted over the phone. Yet, Epic refuses to offer employees an option to work from home, because they don't trust you to be productive. Why do you force us to take over half our meetings over WebEx with someone across campus or in another city, but refuse to let us work from home? They dangle the option to go Boost (remote consulting) or work remotely on a temporary contract basis if you stick around long enough. Unfortunately, you take a significant pay cut and lose several benefits with this route. This option is also reserved for employees who have aligned themselves favorably with managers. Your contract length and perks vary greatly depending on how much they value you. 4. Staff meeting is a monthly meeting where they pack 10,000 people into an auditorium for 3 hours so that Judy can condescendingly tell you how to write emails and schedule meetings. Don't be surprised if you hear any borderline racist comments on stage. It's a complete waste of time but absolutely mandatory, unless you have a medical emergency. 5. Work-life balance, pay, and raises. Be prepared to work at least 45+ hr/wk. It's not uncommon to work 50, 60, 70+ hours a week consistently. Epic works you to the bone until you're burnt out and hires another 22 year old fresh out of school to take your place. At Epic, you are just another cog in the machine. They talk about how big the raises and bonsus are, but know that you start underpaid. If you consider how many hours you're working and all the awful policies you put up with, no amount of money Epic offers you is worth your health, happiness and wellbeing. 6. Epic's non-compete is bad for their employees, bad for their customers, and bad for the industry. After someone leaves Epic, they can't work for a consulting company for at least 2 years and for a customer for at least 1 year from their departure date. Epic wants to decrease competition within the industry and the diminish talent pool available so that their customers are reliant on their overpriced services and help. 7. PTO is awful. 10 days a year is archaic, especially with how many hours you're putting in week after week. 8. Travel policies. The travel team has extremely strict policies. You have no flexibility around your flight times, airline preferences, and hotel options. This means a lot of delayed flights and late nights flying back to to Madison.