I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Epic in Sep 2017
Interview
I applied at a career fair at my university. I got an email really soon after that asking to set up a phone interview, and set up a time to do a skills test. The phone interview was super casual, basically just going over my resume. The skills test was 3 parts, and the coding part was really difficult. They don't let you use any references, even things that are publicly available. You also can't compile and run your code, so you just have to wing it and hope it works. Plus they have you hooked up to an actual human proctor the whole time, which was weird. You have to show the proctor around the room you're in, and you can't have anybody in the room with you AT ALL during the test. I had to kick my husband out of our apartment for almost 4 hours last second, because they don't tell you that that's a rule you have to abide by until you're actually talking to the proctor. Haven't heard back about doing an onsite interview yet, but I can update this if I get accepted for that or rejected.
There's an initial call, then some online testing, then they have you come in. If you live far away (a lot of people who work at Epic seem to come from surprisingly far away), they'll pay for your travel and stay to come in. When you come in, it seems like they're more trying to sell themselves to you than having you sell yourself to them. Most of the questions directed at you seem to be just to get to know you more so than seeing if you know what you need to know. They'll have you talk with someone in your field, show some demos of their software, give you a tour and give you lunch at their biggest cafeteria for free. Lastly, they'll hand you off to HR to answer the rest of your questions before letting you go. As far as I can tell, if they've brought you in, they're planning on hiring you.
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Question 1
In the testing, they teach you this made up language that has really weird properties to it and ask you questions to test your understanding of it. It was surprisingly difficult.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Epic in Sep 2017
Interview
Met with a recruiter at a college career fair. They reached out to me for a phone interview and then an online proctored exam. The exam is estimated to take 2-3 hours which is exceptionally long. After the this, if they decide to move forward with you, they move on to an on-site interview. The skills assessment is both a behavioral questionnaire as well as programming in a text editor. You are unable to check syntax or compile your results so you're basically just winging it hopefully getting in the right direction. Overall, after having applied and interviewed with over 10 companies, this was probably the worst because of the 2 hour exam which ended up being a complete waste of time, as opposed to no other company requiring that long of a skills assessment.