Pros
tl;dr: Money, beautiful campus, excellent resume boost Pay is good, especially after the recent market adjustment. You can expect around 80k even as someone straight out of college. The campus is beautiful and you get your own office/share one with one other person-- these are rooms, not cubicles. You will be able to work with many high-ranking people and do important work, as well as take ownership of a variety of projects-- almost everything you do at Epic sounds excellent on a resume. I'm in the middle of job hunting now, and the respect + first messages I get from recruiters is starkly different from when I was a new grad. The food is quite good too, and sold to you at cost, so it's way cheaper than any other food you would buy.
Kontras
tl;dr: Super toxic feedback culture, overwork, insufficient training, and terrible upper management. Terrible COVID response. Being a POC in Wisconsin is hard, even if the company itself is not racist. I received feedback that I was not getting enough done. I worked crazy hours in a week to catch up and I got feedback saying "why are you getting so little done in so much time?" A close friend of mine passed away and I got in trouble for not getting something done, a task that someone else ought to have owned in the first place. Do NOT let the reviews saying things along the lines of "not sure why everyone is complaining, if you work hard you will be rewarded" gaslight you into thinking that-- things are more complicated than those folks make it out to be. You will be overworked here. They throw you right into the thick of it, because people keep burning out and leaving. There is a 1st-6th month training period that you are expected to complete on top of some reduced work, and then a 6th-12th month training that you have to complete while managing a full workload. It's a very common scenario to be expected to be an expert on something that you just found out existed that week. Your pay and opportunities here hinge far too heavily on the feedback. Managers will regularly go under your nose and collect feedback, and share it with you after the fact. Employees are encouraged to give anonymous feedback to each other constantly-- whistleblower culture. A piece of good feedback is mentioned once, yet a piece of bad feedback will haunt you for months. At a year tenure, I was making less than a new hire ought to make because of some unfair feedback-- I was doing very well at 5/6 hospitals I was staffed to, but that last organization and I just did not mesh well. They would regularly put in unfair feedback, things like "she's so slow with her solutions" when I'm waiting for another team member to get back to me, or "we just don't feel confident in her" because I say that I need to follow up for an answer instead of knowing it on the spot. I was classed as "not meeting expectations" because the expectation is that I'm making all of my organizations happy, and thus I was treated like I was subpar at all aspects of my job. Especially unfair, considering I was only having issues with one organization, while literally being commended by executives at a few of the other organizations. I was never given the benefit of the doubt, when bad feedback came in it was always "what did she do wrong" instead of "I wonder what happened?"