I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at EPAM Systems in Feb 2022
Interview
Terrible experience, first round was screening. The 2nd technical round was with a grumpy team lead.
He had a very serious, grumpy face throughout the interview and blasting questions. Never received any feedback on the interview. EPAM should ask positive, happy employees to take interviews rather than frustrated employees.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at EPAM Systems in Jul 2021
Interview
I've got a first interview with an internal recruiter, followed by a second interview with another internal recruiter. The second person wasn't knowing what role I was applying to, didn't know the salary range, and forwarded me to a couple of techincal interviews. I had to ask by email and on linkedin to get an update. After 10 days of silence, I've got a single line email stating, without any further explaination, that my application was rejected "based on the technical interview"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 interviewer asked very basic questions reading from a list, most of the questions were testing more my memory than my actual skills: I work mostly on IaC or bash, but the first interview went through a list of "what is" questions. The second interviewer had quite a bad attitude, as if any answer was wrong.