Pros
-Decent starting pay for workers with less experience -Passionate and bright colleagues -Interesting work -The Training Department tends to be a more sustainable team to work on, though that was changing when I left due to an increase in the release cycles
Cons
-Company relies on a revolving door of fresh university graduates who are used to being overachievers and haven't had experience setting healthy workplace boundaries -The lack of boundaries becomes such a norm that people regularly lie on their timesheets to hit an accepted sweet-spot of 45-55 hours of work a week (which is still too much for salaried workers), despite having many weeks of working 60+ hours a week -The addiction to overwork so strongly dominates the work culture at Epic that even experienced workers who know how to set healthy boundaries constantly feel discouraged from setting or maintaining those boundaries -If you manage to survive at Epic for 3 years, your work-life balance should start to improve, but seeing how often people are disappearing, that's a big if -Pay tends to be less than industry standards for many of the roles, often because folks are hired without previous experience -Epic has been really resistant to remote or hybrid work, and would have forced workers back to the office on multiple occasions in 2020 if it hadn't been for the intervention of concerned workers and the health department of the local government -Not a friendly environment for folks who experience various mental health struggles or are neurodivergent -Marginalized folks are under hired, undervalued, and constantly disrespected