I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Epic in Oct 2011
Interview
I received an interview after submitted my resume through my university's career website. The interview itself was very laid back. Some of the questions included "Tell me about a time when you were the leader of a group and had to make an unpopular decision." "If you were the leader of a team and you wanted to do option A but the rest of your group wanted to do option B, what would you do?" My interviewer did not hold the actual position I was interviewing for so did not have exact answers to all my questions, but was overall fairly knowledgable about the position. I was admitted to the next step of the process which is taking some sort of intelligence test.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Epic in Jul 2011
Interview
First of all, you need to pass a personality test which is similar to a SAT. I think it is quite easy but one of my friends just failed. After that, some hiring staff will call you and ask some routine questions. For example, how many hours did you spend on programming each week, and what's your grade of GRE or GPA... Then I went to a local library to take a skill test. The first part is logical questions about their internal used syntax/language, which is not difficult. The second part is 4 programming questions. All of them are String operations. You can use any language you feel comfortable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Get all well-ordered substrings from a series of numbers. Well-ordered substring is a string composed by ascending numbers.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Epic (Madison, WI) in May 2011
Interview
The overall process was pretty intensive, as can be seen by what the interview consisted of. The company seems to be very relaxed and very youth-focused, which is what I really liked. The programming test was simply the worst, though. One of the people who sat in on my presentation wasn't one of the nicest people I ever met, though. It would've been great to work with Epic, but it is how it is. I got to fly out to Madison for free, so hey. Can't really complain.