Pros
- Great coworkers. They are brilliant and fun loving people - Competitive pay - Unlimited PTO - Great healthcare plan - Remote work and flexibility.
Cons
The pros you just read sounds great right? Who wouldn't want all those benefits? Well I'm here to tell you that you better be prepared to work for it. As someone who has worked in FAANG before but fairly new to the video game industry, I am absolutely shocked at how things operate here at Epic. Priorities are constantly shifting and you will be given incomplete or unclear requirements during the course of any project. Things will happen often where you will have to completely shift your focus to something new while working on something that was planned. You're gonna be working with important people across various time zones that make it hard to communicate and collaborate effectively. In my teams, there is no clear ownership of certain services/areas and the processes we have are a mess. There is a serious problem here at Epic when it comes to leadership and upper management who cannot commit to priorities and organize work. People here work in a culture of fear from senior leadership and it's chaotic place to work compared to my previous experiences. There are gaps in headcount and resources in design and product areas that causes massive headaches to the engineering department, the work in engineering is also disoriented because we can't seem to breakdown the work in an effective manner. Things will get missed easily and there's a lack of clarity on the deliverables. Work will start even without all the prerequisite docs/specs that will outline how things should go, there's a constant chase for answers during the course of work and it's up to you to figure it out. Be prepared to play office politics because it is something you will need to do well at to succeed here at Epic. This is the most chaotic tech workplace I've ever been a part of.