Epic reviews

* Code review is a competition * Sloppy and outdated framework with OOP-spaghetti * Management doesn't really know what to do with collaborative types * CEO takes whole company offline for 2 hours to ramble in a big room once per month * Web migration still isn't finished, VB6 reigns supreme

Epic has slowly become more corporate overlord-y and weird as time has gone along. Upper management pretty much makes company policy decisions themselves, pretends it was a great move regardless of how it went, and then ignores all feedback from employees (even mid-level managers). Epic was slow to move towards work from home at the start of the pandemic and even attempted to move everyone back to work in August of 2020 despite no vaccine for COVID, shortly before the massive delta spike. They did this seemingly because executives just wanted to, with little to no input from the rest of staff and without really putting thought into it - for instance, I knew a trainer who was driving into work to teach remote classes all day. It didn't make sense and it put employees at risk of a deadly virus. Epic is very serious about patient safety when it comes to the software, but none of those processes were followed when it came to the safety of the employees themselves. Now that employees are vaccinated, they've completely removed any work from home flexibility, and that sucks especially when you're someone who works primarily with customers across the US; you drive into work to do zoom meetings all day with people in Florida. Again, it doesn't really make sense, and there's no way to provide feedback. Any avenues for collective employee are quickly shut down, or just ignored and quietly removed. When people quit or are dismissed, they just kind of disappear and it can be hard to figure out what happened. Individual feedback is ignored. It's very frustrating to work at a place that doesn't listen to employees about things that matter to their daily lives. Again, I generally have liked my time at the company, it's just been an increasingly unsettling place to work recently. The upside to this is they've given out pretty big raises and bonuses post-return to work, but that's not worth it to me.