Avantages
-Diverse, bright, hardworking colleagues -Many roles come with lots of opportunity/expectation for self management -Epic makes a meaningful contribution to healthcare -In my work and on my team, I encourage pursuing areas of excellence so the solutions offered both internally and to customers bear somewhat of an identifiable signature -In my area at least, there are frequent opportunities to carve out a new project or process from raw material and carry it forward -Its great to see talented young people come into Epic, make their own way forward working together with you on a team, or with you as their team leader, and later on see them doing influential work on other teams, recognized as experts in various matters
Inconvénients
-As I get older and the company gets larger, the percentage of the company that is in my age range is getting smaller and smaller. Sometimes I feel like I am prolonging a dissertation into a third decade while wandering up Bascom Hill among a sea of freshmen. -Scope creep is a significant vulnerability when application IS, tech services, PC/Client TS, Server TS, and development work very closely in an environment that integrates many different user groups/workflows/products. -Your team leader may very well be a micromanager, and it might take a while for that to be whittled away -Your team leader may overreact to the micromanagement of others, and end up not giving you sufficient feedback for you to know they do recognize your successes, and give guidance in the areas that you can grow. -If you are a team leader, chances are that you will either micromanage members of the team, or give them insufficient feedback. -If you are a team leader, sooner or later a member of your team will leave Epic(or perhaps several over time), leaving you to wonder if you've micromanaged them, or not given them enough feedback. And you'll wonder if anonymous reviews of Epic mentioning middle management were written with you in mind.