[skinwill]

Around here we have Epic. If you want a good scare, look up their corporate Willy Wonka-esq jail/campus and their policy of zero remote work.

[Liquix]

I thought "Willy Wonka-esque" was tongue in cheek, but they have a yellow brick road leading up to the front door... absolutely bizarre

Those who want to escape the office altogether, can hop on one of the company’s 600 cow-print bikes to take meetings from a treehouse, slide down a rabbit hole or grab lunch in a train car.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/01/inside-epic-systems-mythical...

[Izkata]

> but they have a yellow brick road leading up to the front door...

> The Oz office building on Epic’s campus.

You undersell it.. That's the view of the Emerald City from Quadling Country in the books, red flowers included.

[emchammer]

They don’t seem to call themselves a family. That’s a plus.

[simulator5g]

I've been to that campus. Never worked there but I got a tour when I was like 18 and it seemed like a cool place to work at the time. They clearly took a page from Google's handbook. Its like a giant adult daycare center.

[bongodongobob]

Their hiring is insane too. Years ago I applied for a Sys admin I position. After 3 rounds of interviews, they gave me a test to take. Except it was something you'd give a senior dev. They specced out a fake language, super esoteric too, it was like a combination of brainfuck and assembly, and asked me to solve problems with it, and debug code written in it. I could have toughed my way through it, but I was so dissatisfied with how much of my time they'd already wasted that I decided I didn't want to work there.

[jacquesm]

That sounds like a filter selecting for people without any self esteem but mad programming chops. Good you passed.

[therein]

I remember my friend was looking at applying Epic. They asked him to send his SAT scores. We had a good chuckle about it.

He had finished undergrad 5+ years prior and had continuous industry experience.

[BeFlatXIII]

You sure it was a fake language and not just ANSI MUMPS?