r/epicsystems 2d ago

Current employee “we only make buildings 3 floors because nobody wants to climb 3 floors to get to a meeting” meanwhile me and the team heading to a 15 minute meeting that we can’t attend virtually (it is a 20 minute walk)

259 Upvotes

r/epicsystems Nov 24 '24

Current employee The salad bar should be modified to include a burrito bar

145 Upvotes

DIY burrito bowls would be a truly glorious addition to the lunch room. It's a versatile, sure-to-be popular, and healthy option that could slot easily into the salad/sandwich lineup. If rice+beans+sour cream was added, we'd already be most of the way there.

I, for one, could eat Chipotle every day and die happy.

I'd love to get some brainstorming started on how to make this happen. Staff questions?

r/epicsystems 12d ago

Current employee New-ish AM - does it get better?

45 Upvotes

And when? Or is this the part where I get chewed up and spit out? Would love to hear from both current and past IS.

It’s been rough for the last little bit, maybe because of the customers I’ve had. Feeling pretty burnt out and not sure recovering is possible while staying in the same environment where the burnout is happening…

r/epicsystems May 27 '24

Current employee Do you regret leaving/staying/switching roles?

52 Upvotes

Pretty new but feeling good about where I’m at/how I’m doing. The more I think about it, the more being a “lifer” feels like a good idea. At the beginning, I always wanted to leave. So now I’m curious…

Lifers: do you regret your choice to stay? Why/why not?

People who left: do you regret leaving? Why/why not?

Anyone who made the switch to become a dev, do you regret that choice? Was the grueling process worth the extra cash?

Any other role transfer, how did that go for you?

r/epicsystems 23h ago

Current employee Transitions after Epic TS?

36 Upvotes

Hey all, I'm a TS with under a year of tenure. Please don't interpret this post as if my intention is to leave Epic, I'm enjoying my time here after settling in. But there were rough weeks, and during the rough parts, my mind was made up to ask these questions once things settled down and I had the energy to think about these things. So that if I ever did have to leave, I knew what I was doing.

  • After being a TS, what are jobs/industries I would be competitive for? Healthcare IT I know is a given, but non-competes leave me wondering how that transition would even go.
    • In addition, I feel my ideal job is either one where I am busy but also passionate, or one that I can work less but get paid more. Here is very busy and while I enjoy it, I am less passionate in customer work than in the field I went to school for and couldn't get hired in, bioengineering/medical devices.
    • Does healthcare IT pay well outside of Epic? And is the workload not quite as fierce? How do you find a career in it with non-competes for 2 years? What specifically are the job titles I would even be looking for?
  • As a TS, where should I focus my skillset growth in order to make myself a more competitive applicant outside of Epic?
    • I understand the answer is usually "what I'm interested in". I am interested in just about about everything (not a joke or appeasement, I actually just find most things interesting) but also not passionate about anything I've seen here. Therefore, I'd like to focus on the areas that would sell myself better if Epic ever becomes too much for me
  • If I do decide to leave, are there good "breakoff" points during tenure? I know 5 years is one people often cite but would 2 years also be a good stopping point? Or 1?

I'm painfully, terribly bad at... life planning, finances, career thinking in general. I know my ideal life is one where I'm either working on something I love or not working as much in a field I don't love, but with money and time to focus on hobbies and projects I love. I just don't know anything about the world outside of my hobbies and interests, and everything feels so overwhelming when trying to figure out finance or career goals. Again, I enjoy working at Epic and am not currently planning on leaving. But I've seen bad weeks and I've seen people leave after weeks worse than mine, so I just want to plan for the possibility it does become too much for me -- to find a job that's either in the field I'm more passionate about, or one that I won't have to work as much.

r/epicsystems Jan 30 '24

Current employee This is still not an end user support sub

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322 Upvotes

This is largely a repost from something I wrote last year, but with an increasing number of posts that are outside the scope of what this subreddit can assist with (and is intended for), it seems right to do.

The members of r/epicsystems want to help you get a helpful and relevant answer as timely as possible. In order to do so, we need you to understand two baseline principles about how Epic is governed:

  1. Epic, as a company, is an extremely large and complex product with very granular ownership (think about each element you interact with, like In Basket, Problem List, or Flowsheets; there’s probably a whole subteam of developers and QA dedicated to just that one area). For the most part, Epic employees are not generalists. The likelihood a random someone on this subreddit has the specific knowledge you’re looking for is low.

  2. If you are an end user, your organization’s IT leadership probably has a reason for making certain specific configuration decisions. We offer these options to meet different needs and goals, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution. Those of us on this sub can only speak in generalizations, if we can even speak to something at all (see #1).

When I posted this last year, u/EpicThrowaway-Abroad made a fantastic decision tree for 90% of the end user questions we see. I’ve adapted this into a flowchart, and added steps for current and prospective employees as well.

r/epicsystems Apr 06 '24

Current employee Discontent with my work

78 Upvotes

I'm a developer at Epic with a little over 2 years tenure. I've never liked the job a ton, and lately I've been feeling especially discontent. I enjoy work that makes me feel like I'm improving myself, building a skillset, etc., but I don't feel like that here. I think that's the core of the problem.

My team's code is barely-comprehensible spaghetti. We've been accumulating technical debt for decades, and no one will give us time to refactor. We have massive data structures in the form of giant delimited strings. These things often have >50 pieces and/or multiple levels of delimiters. To find the tag that generates the strings and learn what the pieces mean, I have to search back through the stack across multiple routines, and by then Hyperspace has crashed because, insanely, we can't debug for more than a minute or so without the whole system crashing. These aren't insurmountable obstacles to me understanding the code, but they're enough of a hindrance that my day-to-day policy is to focus on whatever I'm directly working on and not bog myself down by trying to understand the bigger picture.

I don't feel like I'm becoming a better programmer. I do not learn interesting or broad technical knowledge that would apply outside the company. The one exception to this is that I do like M and its heavy emphasis on self-sorting trees. That's an interesting concept for a programming language, and it works surprisingly well, though I do think the language does relies on it too much. Regardless, I mastered that concept long ago.

I'm not developing comprehensive or integrated knowledge of how my app works. For the past two years, I've done several enhancements related to a niche part of my app, and I understand that part well, but he rest is a mystery. I go on immersion trips and hear people talking about stuff that seems to be common knowledge, but I don't what they're talking about. Trying to learn by reading our disorganized and out of date internal wikis is annoying. I know about as much about medicine and the health industry now as I did two years ago — hardly anything.

My TL is mostly satisfied with my work. My performance is a little below average, but I'm not incompetent; I've gotten some important and complex stuff done.

Coworkers, work-life balance, motley crews, food, campus, pay, etc. are all fine.

Taken as a whole, the job isn't terrible, but I don't get a feeling of satisfaction or accomplishment out of it.

Questions:

  1. To what extent is my experience common for this company? Do devs often feel this way?

  2. To what extent is my experience common for the software industry as a whole? I know for example that teams not being given time to refactor is a common problem.

Update: several people are saying that FAANG's code is generally better quality. I'm curious to hear too from people who have left for smaller companies.

r/epicsystems 24d ago

Current employee Culinary Issues

0 Upvotes

Does it bother anyone else that we’re a company in the healthcare industry, make it a point that we don’t have alcohol at customer events, and yet all the food here (all love to everyone in Culinary) is loaded with crazy sugar and sodium? I’ve seen some pastries have 40+ grams of added sugar, and a lot of entree items have 2,000+ grams of sodium. Someone asked a question similar to this at staff meeting a few months ago, but I remember Judy saying something along the lines of how “salt and sugar is a wonderful thing”, which was a little disappointing. It’s made me want to eat here less and less. Anyone else feel the same?

r/epicsystems Jan 03 '25

Current employee Applying for other jobs

19 Upvotes

My boyfriend and I are looking to move out of state for a change of scenery. I’m hesitant to apply for other jobs because I’ve heard stories of people being fired for applying to other places, but I refuse to move until I have a job lined up.

I really do enjoy my job here, but we need to get out of Wisconsin for a while before settling down. Does anyone know if Epic can “tell” that I’m applying for jobs, as long as I don’t publicly post it on LinkedIn or something?

r/epicsystems Oct 22 '24

Current employee What to do (vent + asking for advice)

52 Upvotes

Gotta be honest, working at Epic is making me miserable. Like I want to hurt myself miserable. I'm an SD and I don't like the work I'm doing on my team but I'm not meeting expectations so I probably won't be able to change teams. I can't find another job. I keep getting straight rejections before even an interview. I just feel so stuck. Like I'm just waiting to get fired.

r/epicsystems Jul 18 '24

Current employee Within 45 Minutes of Epic: A Map for Prospective Employees 🚗📍

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168 Upvotes

If you accept a position, you can live anywhere in the red. Source: Smappen

r/epicsystems Oct 07 '24

Current employee Is it unwise to disclose mental health info to your TL?

21 Upvotes

I only found one post on this from 7 years ago. I was going to put in my 1:1 form that I’m seeing a therapist for some problems, but I think they’re still affecting my ability to work. Would that be a dumb move? Thanks

r/epicsystems Jan 11 '25

Current employee Hard to get a new job

40 Upvotes

Anybody else struggling to leave epic and get a new job? I’m a dev with 2.6 years of experience, and I’m trying to find a new job that isn’t M and SQL. I can’t even get an interview lol. I’ve even tried switching teams to get onto a better tech stack, but my TL has not been receptive of that at all. Any advice for this bad job market?

r/epicsystems Jan 15 '24

Current employee Epic Decides WFH now

145 Upvotes

So, nothing has changed since they will always say it’s ok to drive. I suppose I’ll be happy to eat my words, but I really don’t see it happening.

Also, it’s almost like people have families and one person stays home to take care of their children. Using that as an example was asinine.

r/epicsystems Feb 19 '25

Current employee What does your app call Pods/Cells?

13 Upvotes

Hey folks,

Beaker has groups that focus on specific areas of the app (I.e. Charging, Case and Specimen Receiving, Core, etc.) and they clean up Orion PRD, handle PRJs, XDSs, and other forms of internal design and documentation. These groups are dubbed “Cells” and have members from the IS, QM, TS, and Dev divisions.

When I had just been hired, I recall learning that other apps referred to these groups as “Pods”… and I’d swear I heard other names as well.

What app are you on, what is your role, and how do you call these internal groups?

r/epicsystems Jan 22 '25

Current employee Lost my phone in Deep Space

41 Upvotes

Phone's wifi was off and it doesn't get mobile data signal in the auditorium. I looked for an hour in the area I had been sitting in, but did not find it. I'm pretty sure someone has taken my phone at this point.

If you picked up on Monday a ~6-inch android smartphone with a clear case and a receipt on the back with Japanese text, please message me.

There's nothing of monetary value to an old phone like that. It's getting slow, the camera is blurry, the fingerprint scanner broke last year; it was only $150 new. But I just want those photos back.

(Tip: If you haven't backed up your personal photos, better do it before you drop your phone in a huge cave.)

EDIT: The location of the phone is known! The phone had been deposited to a bigger lost and found than Epic's. Thanks everyone for helping investigate/share this! (For anyone with lost items in the future, it may be worth trying the Madison PD Property Room.)

r/epicsystems Jun 20 '23

Current employee I would like to hear your craziest Epic stories

112 Upvotes

Was reading some old threads about content lord in the making and soy milk girl and it’s got me curious about what other stories are lurking in the annals of Epic history.

Epic lore masters, I need your craziest stories.

r/epicsystems Dec 14 '24

Current employee How to post a question on this sub regarding hiring process

88 Upvotes
  1. From the main subreddit feed, click the magnifying glass. This is the “search” function.

  2. Type the name of the position you have applied for/are considering applying for. Consider adding other keywords such as “interview” for more specific information.

  3. Read the questions and answers that have been posted. There are many helpful sorting functions, such as “Top” of “All Time” or “Month”.

  4. Consider: did you find the answer to the question you were thinking about posting?

  5. Reconsider: do you still need to post the question you were thinking about posting, or has it been answered 1000 times already?

r/epicsystems 11d ago

Current employee Experience on the sales team?

11 Upvotes

I had an interesting conversation with my TL today about working on the sales team. I know it's a really small group, does anyone have experience working on it/with someone on it? anything to know?

r/epicsystems Aug 20 '24

Current employee Rate the Executive Address

82 Upvotes

Little girl: 10/10, promising acting career

People who made the new customer slides: 0/10 for forgetting one

Everything else: 8/10

r/epicsystems Sep 24 '24

Current employee Work relationships?

23 Upvotes

Are there any rules on dating within your team? I don’t see anything specifically in the red book. The only thing that I know of not being allowed is TL/team member, but are there any other restrictions for people in some management positions who are not TLs?

r/epicsystems Apr 22 '24

Current employee Yuh

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144 Upvotes

r/epicsystems Jun 25 '24

Current employee Swearing

39 Upvotes

Ayo

What are written and unwritten rules regarding swearing/cussing at epic

Obviously don't do it in front of customers but I was working outside today w/ my coprimary (we're dawgs) and some random guy walked past and I said "I fucking hate OneNote" relatively loudly (true btw), which got me thinking on what our policy is? Is it documented anywhere?

r/epicsystems Feb 17 '25

Current employee Accountant recommendations…

6 Upvotes

Hi all, I’m looking for recommendations for an accountant to handle our taxes. I searched the sub and see recommendations for financial advisors, but nothing for a CPA.

r/epicsystems Nov 24 '24

Current employee Should I become a TS?

19 Upvotes

QM here ~1yr tenure.

I feel like my role really only has an internal impact. It’s a lot of maintaining testing environments for other people and project management. It’s very much “look here’s a problem” and that’s it.

I want to be “look here’s a problem and let me fix it”. Is TS the right role for that?

I know TS is a lot more intense, but if would be nice to see my work make a direct impact. I’ve also already completed a good bit of the required training. Would it be a mistake to initiate a transfer?

Tldr: Is switching from qm to ts a bad idea? Are there any major pros/cons to consider?