Vantaggi
- Great benefits and starting salary if you are out of college - Intelligent and diligent coworkers - Great facilities with computers and projectors in every conference room, nice office, and a fantastic cafeteria - Overall good documentation repository, tools, and coworker support for knowledge sharing - Good for go-getters who work independently and want to get involved in numerous projects
Svantaggi
- 60% of management gets there by being good in the software or kissing up to someone higher up. Neither means they are a good manager. - No long term career trajectory in my area. If you want to move up in the company to a VP or C-level, there is clear favoritism for developers - Work/life balance is terrible. You need to have a very supportive significant other in order to keep your relationship going. - You have to live in Madison, even if you are on the road 75 - 100% of the time. Frequently people would call into meetings from home or their office because it takes 20 minutes to trek anywhere. For a tech company, this rule is surprisingly archaic with the amount of teleconferencing we have now. The two bullet points above are the main reasons why I did not go back. My entrepreneurial endeavors ended <1 year after I left, and I seriously considered going back to Epic. However, the improvement in my mental and physical well-being could not be ignored, as well as other job opportunities that had equal or better pay and for 40 hrs a week. If I were to pull those hours again and for less money than I'm making now, the job better be something I was passionate about.