I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EPAM Systems in Jan 2025
Interview
I talked to a recruiter and started the process. First interview was via phone to check background, skills and let you know about the process and the company. The recruiter was nice. After that they sent me an email with a link for tech interview, which was going to be taken supposedly by a guy who speaks my native language. I connected to the interview just to find out it was in full English. I don't have any peoblems with that and I can communicate quite well English, but I think they should have let me know about the change in order to check some technical language and vocabulary I lacked of. Apart from that, the interview isn't in Zoom, Meet, Teams, or a proven provider, it's in their own platform, which at least in my case, didn't work properly. They included live coding while in the first interview the recruiter told me the tech interview was going to be a conversation about stack, project I had worked in and maybe analize some code and outputs, not coding itself. Again, while I have no problems at all with that, they should tell you the truth in first instance. Both tech interviewers tried to be nice, but we had problems understanding each other accent, which led us to misunderstoods. It was not a good experience.
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Question 1
Spring, Spring boot, solid, SQL, architecture AND Design patterns.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Wilna) in Jan 2025
Interview
DON'T bother applying unless you are russian/speak russian.
The process consisted of one call with a recruiter, then a technical interview. The first question they asked was, if I speak russian during the technical interview, which was conducted with 2 team members. They then said, that they talk in russian to each other. I had to ask, if the working language is english, to which they said yes, and we continued in english, without them really introducing themselves. It was an unpleasant experience, they seemed quite upset that I don't speak any russian.
The interview was very extensive and they wanted to know everything about my experience, going in depths of different design areas, that were not mentioned in the job post. They were not aware themselves of some design areas, that they were asking about, such as accessibility, which is quite standard in UX.
When I received the feedback, they had changed the position title, to a UX/UI Designer, which seems a bit suspicious.
Interview process has following stages: HR call, technical interview, interview with group manager, interview with the team, client interview (optional). That's possible to have several interviews for different projects if you match several