Epic Software Developer reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(953 total reviews)
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Judith R. Faulkner

77% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Epic with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 953 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Epic is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Sep 27, 2018

Good food, old tech

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Pros

The food is seriously one of the best out there.

Cons

The tech being used is primitive, does not really add to the resume.

5.0
Sep 25, 2018
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Pros

The culture is exactly what I want from a software development position. The company is nearly completely run by developers. There just isn't a sense of marketing or greed or politics in the day-to-day work. All the way up the chain everybody knows how things really work and there isn't a habit of over-promising or hyping things that aren't realistic. The tech stack has quickly shifted to more relevant platforms than in the past, and the willingness to try out new things has rapidly increased. The work itself is among the most meaningful that anybody in development could hope to work on. Processes, rules, and things like that just make sense, and if they don't then the culture is one of extreme openness to feedback to get to whatever is right. Truly a we're-all-on-the-same-team mentality that really works.

Cons

Going all-in on development leadership means that developers really are responsible for things they may not be expecting. Communication and self-managing skills are really important. Healthcare is extraordinarily complicated and fragmented at times, so building software to capture all that complexity alongside stalwarts of the industry is a daunting task. Processes go hand-in-hand with dealing with it all, so there's a bunch of them.

4.0
Sep 11, 2018
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Pros

Lots of freedom. Generally speaking, you can change teams whenever you get bored. Even job roles entirely if you can meet requirements. Benefits are generally speaking really good. Base vacation is a bit low but offset with sabbatical program available every 5 years. Fun work for the most part. Most of the company is dedicated to transition to web (as of 2018) so you may need to know or at least read VB6, but for how big the company is they do well at utilizing new technology well.

Cons

Expectations are often times far too high. Average work week is expected to be around 50 hours (though you CAN talk this down, but you must be willing to do so). Projects tend to have arbitrary dead lines. If project manager is not tech savvy or does not know the domain hour estimates are widely off but if they are too low are still expected to meet deadlines set on those time frames.

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