I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Epic (Madison, WI) in Jul 2010
Interview
I initially applied online via Monster.com. A couple of weeks later, I received a phone call from a recruiter who scheduled a brief phone interview. For the initial phone interview, it consisted of basic bahavioral quesitons, why I was looking to move jobs, my experiences and education, all the standard stuff. The next step was for me to go to a testing center to take two assessments: The first was a language assessment ot test reading comprehension, grammar and style, The second assessment was basic programming problems. The point was not to see if you could program but if your reading comprehension was high enough that you could catch on to the basic gist of it...if you could be taught, so to speak. I even randomly guessed on the last few and apparently did well enough to be selected for a site visit to their headquarters in Madison.
I arrived late the night before due to Airline problems, so I was not able to join in the dinner with current employees. In the morning when I arrived (and the cab driver was telling us about how they have about a zillion candidates come through every day), I was given a group tour of their campuses (which are pretty cool, but could definitely do without the "StarWars and Space" themes. We were told ahead of time that we would have to give a 10 minute presentation to a small panel and that no computer assistance would be allowed. I made sure to pick a topic that I knew I could talk for 10 minutes without running out of things to say and that I could answer any and all questions. I also brought just some personal photos to go along, and to help the panel to visualize what I was talking about. They definitely seemed impressed.
There was also a situational assessment where I was given 10 minutes to study a work situation and then tell the interviewer how you would (behaviorally) go about solving this problem if it were your real-life siation. Stressing customer service and professionalism seemed to be the ticket. There was also a 1:1 interview, again behavioral in nature where you are given the leeway to emphasize your strenghts and weaknesses and why yould be a good fit. Etc.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Epic (Madison, WI) in Apr 2011
Interview
They seemed determined to have me interview even though I told the phone person the job sounded wrong for me. I drove to Madison, checked into a hotel where the desk person raved about Epic and Epic people. Spent the night, drove to the company and spent the next 7 hours getting told about Epic, interviewing, touring, etc. Oh, and taking ridiculous tests.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Epic in Apr 2011
Interview
The process was really nice and they treat every recruit as if they will get an offer. A recruiter found my resume on monster and invited me to apply for the PM position. After that step, I took a personality test, and then had a phone interview where a PM asked me some basic background questions, discussed the position, and allowed me to ask some questions. Two days later, I received an invitation to fly out to their HQ in Madison. They flew me out, took me out to dinner, and put me up in a nice hotel. On the day of the interview, I took a cab over to their campus (about 30 minutes, and again paid for) it was beautiful, modern, and fun. The day consisted of learning about Epic and a whole bunch of interviews. There was a case study, a presentation that I gave, and an interview with HR. After all of that, I sat down and took some evaluation tests, and I'm not sure how well I did on those. Its been five days since the interview, and they told me that I would hear within a week or two.