Epic Systems Employee Reviews for Equipment Services Project Manager

"An Epic FAIL."

What do you like about working at Epic Systems?

"Nothing in particular about the company is pleasant."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't even think about working for this company. It's a waste of your time."

What don't you like about working at Epic Systems?

"This company culls its employees regularly, which is a large part of the reason why there's such a high rate of hiring and a high turnover rate. They practice emotional blackmail to the highest degree, to oust those they don't find favorable to the company. One of the methods they use is to communicate en masse via texting to socially ostracize an individual. They will collectively proceed to cough, put their hands on their nose as if something is smelly, or spit, in order to isolate, humiliate, and degrade the targeted individual. Other times they will simply isolate the individual and prevent all communication for some time (for example, no email communication). The company also uses gossip to call out individuals in an indirect manner. After their harassment episode, employees are told to collectively sniffle, as if to feel sorry and weep for the individual being harassed. Additionally, your activities are constantly monitored, giving you a sense that you are being probed. Also, they will blacklist you with the help of local businesses, usually in the form of extreme passive aggressive behavior or rudeness. All of this is done in an indirect manner and employees are told to never admit that they are doing anything of this nature, fearing their own harassment or possible unemployment.These methods force one to quit and turn in one's two weeks notice. Otherwise, you'll get fired if you don't play along. At which point, they'll offer a measly two weeks severance agreement in exchange for no wrong doing by Epic. Epic's very open and collective harassment is embraced by management because they don't fear the consequences, assuming that the employee values resigning over the potentially detrimental firing that would be left on the employee's employment history. And, this is just in reference to the labor practice of Epic - this company should be investigated by the Justice department and other federal agencies for other illegal activities.Personally, I remember while recovering from my severe injury, I was in the office early in the morning before anyone else and leaving past 2 am everyday, just to catch up on my work - and I caught up, even on weekends (over 100 hours a week). My inexperienced application manager kept pushing me more and more, and it was difficult to work under her supervision. Eventually, I had a meeting with the HR director, and she asked me if I wanted a new application manager (in other words, to have my AM fired) as she was under-performing as a manager, but I said no. I mentioned this to some of my colleagues (perhaps I should have been more tact given the retaliation that would follow), and soon afterwards they investigated me for medical insurance fraud (why) and had my own healthcare providers involved. They also falsely accused me of drug addiction, drug dealing, and sexual misconduct / offense (by the same AM who I helped from being fired), and even harassed me at my own residence. They even had my colleagues connect to my laptop at the office to monitor me, which was uncomfortable to say the least. I was even told the obvious by an Epic employee that others had coordinated to treat me in this manner. They treated me as if I was only intelligent as cattle, and went so far as to set me up to test my IQ in an all day testing session analyzed by a PhD; yet, to their uninformed surprise, I literally scored a genius. What's also troublesome is that they tampered with my electronic medical records. When I asked about it, they asked me a variety of questions, then the following day they came up with a maintenance excuse that took months to fix. I also asked to see everything on my employee file and there was only basic information on there. Considering everything I've gone through, I found it odd as I wondered if there was something I didn't know. I sought counsel regarding this and I was told that this was very odd that only the basic information (e.g. reviews, all signed employee documents, etc.). was left on my employee file, which left no reason for my firing, and the possibility that they shredded or withheld documents from me was not to be excluded. On top of all of that, they gave me no raise or bonus after over an year of working at Epic, while new hires in training for the same position were making a higher salary than me.All of these actions were part of their concerted effort to get me to quit. One day, HR called me into their office and I was told to sign the severance agreement. I never signed their severance agreement stating that everything I experienced is discriminatory, I refused any amount of money they offered me in the severance, and I was fired. It is now close to an year since the day I was fired, and I believe I am still being harassed by Epic, primarily because they are afraid of a massive lawsuit against them. And, after applying to hundreds of jobs, experience working at Epic Systems Corporation doesn't seem to hold much weight on a resume as reputable non-healthcare companies don't seem to know Epic or care for those transferable managerial and IT skills, so you're left unemployed (and their one year non-compete agreements make it more difficult to find employment at healthcare firms). I'm unsure if Epic is actively preventing me from finding employment via a blacklist or by some other means, but they do enforce their non-competes with extreme prejudice. I am left worst off than before I started working at Epic, and I have a large employment gap with a bad reference. Effectively, I stand a better chance at succeeding with starting my own business, than to pass the initial screening process when applying to jobs. To this day, I hate it anytime I hear a cough, as I am reminded of Epic and the people who chose to harass and discriminate against me."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Treat your employees well. Your labor practices will come back to bite you all."

What do you like about working at Epic Systems?

"I like the high responsibility and opportunity for self-direction. High stress and high hours are required to meet the needs of our customers, but we offer experience working with America's best healthcare organizations."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask about the day-to-day - determine if you would like working on software day-to-day, or whether you are most interested in the product itself or in the installation process and time with customers."

What don't you like about working at Epic Systems?

"We are only asked to complete the work necessary. If a customer is very demanding, then we have to do a lot of work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow more travel time, and allow folks to work remotely more often, so that they can enjoy the benefits of spending a lot of time traveling."

"Great placed to get hired at, but a bad place to stay long at."

What do you like about working at Epic Systems?

"I like the challenging situations that you are put into and asked to succeed in."

What don't you like about working at Epic Systems?

"There is very little management experience in the company. They have no employee loyalty and do not help their employees succeed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work on trying to make Epic a place where people stay. In the long run, you would be 10 times more successful if you kept people longer than an average of two years."

"Epic is a great place to start a healthcare IT career."

What do you like about working at Epic Systems?

"I liked the great flexibility and freedom, and the amazing corporate culture. You received a lot of training."

What don't you like about working at Epic Systems?

"They weren't flexible about allowing remote working. You had to fit the Epic mentality or you didn't advance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow remote working."