Vantaggi
They hire straight out of college with no work experience. The work actually is quite meaningful and you have the ability to make a large impact on patients’ and clinicians’ lives. You learn a lot of valuable skills that will take you far in any job you have in the future. Most companies in either healthcare or tech will recognize the name, which will help you in job searches down the line.
Svantaggi
Epic’s business model is: hire new grads straight out of college, run 90% of them into the ground within about two years by overworking them, and repeat. The raises and benefits are great, but you only reap the benefits of them if you stay long enough (~3-5 years), which most do not. Epic also benefits from hiring straight out of college because their employees have never worked a normal corporate job, so their employees don’t realize how outrageous some of the expectations are until they leave. I may sound bitter, but I actually have no regrets about working at Epic. Having Epic on my resumé and the skills I learned from my experience there were 100% worth being overworked for two years. Plus, my new corporate job (client-facing role at another large tech company) feels like a total cake walk in comparison to Epic.