[mrbrandonking]

There's a story on "The Daily WTF" that's almost certainly about Epic Systems. Epic apparently uses an obfuscated 60's-era language called MUMPS.

See http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx

I found another article that says Epic prefers to hire fresh college graduates because they're easier to mold into the "Epic Way."

[kylemhill]

I used to work at Epic, but it was over six years ago at this point. Their entire stack at the time was MUMPS and VB6. No idea if that's still the case, mind you -- there were some modernization efforts underway when I left. Although from what my friends that work at Epic hospitals tell me about their software, it likely hasn't changed much.

And I almost certainly got hired there because I actually knew MUMPS from a previous job. Of the developers they hired during my cycle, every one of them was on an H1-B or fresh out of Carnegie Mellon or MIT; meanwhile I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree.

(If you do some light searching, you can find another famous story on TDWTF that I wrote about MUMPS.)

[aaronbrethorst]

> I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree.

Funny, they rejected me from even interviewing with a 3.01 GPA and a Computer Science degree because my GPA wasn't high enough. It worked out well, though, and I'm glad I never had to live in Madison.

[xxpor]

They're still on VB6 and MUMPS. They've just recently started doing C# stuff.