Vantaggi
I met some great people at Epic. Everyone gets a mentor, and I really liked my mentor. I don't work at the company anymore, but I still keep in touch with my mentor. I also had other relationships with people who were always willing to help me figure things out. I could not have made it as long as I did without them.
Svantaggi
So, when I was applying at Epic, I was reading other reviews, and I noticed many people saying that Epic will demand of you very long hours and may work you to the bone. I thought, maybe if I set up boundaries with my time, I can make it work. So I only worked 45-50 hours a week most of the time. But I could never get done my workload in that time, which caused lots of stress. But if I worked more than this, I didn't have time to take care of myself outside of work and also ended up stressed. I couldn't find a way to take care of myself in this job, and the good pay just wasn't worth it. I was also originally hired as a technical writer. One month after I started, the writing team was disbanded and I was told I would start software testing instead. With little to no training, I was thrown into software testing with a full work load. Whenever I couldn't get my load done, because I was completely in over my head, I was talked to about my time management. As if perfect time management would just solve everything. Admittedly, my time management wasn't great. But it was mostly because I had been worn down into a shell of myself, and I just couldn't keep managing my time at a near impossible rate while feeling so incredibly burnt out.