I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Epic in Aug 2009
Interview
I have recently started an interview process with Epic. A recruiter contacted me saying they found my resume on Monster. I had to take a personality test, which was easy. Then a phone interview, which was also very general, nothing technical. And then a skills assessment test. I have still not got the results of the skills assessment. But the questions seemed pretty easy.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Epic (Madison, WI) in Mar 2009
Interview
- The phone interview was like a joke. They asked my GPA?!? it's in my resume, i hoped the interviewer read my resume before making a call... fortunately i had it open.
- The skill assesment test was easy just to make sure that your resume is really your resume.
- The onsite interview process was really organized and pretty rewarding.
- I was surprised that my interviewer knew what I was presenting about given that my topic was highly
specialized.
- Got tired after the whole day of onsite interview process.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
I have a log that consists of more than 100 million lines. Each line is just a data about user login, login time, etc. I want to sort them based on user login, and then if there is a tie based on login time, etc. However, I have limited memory, so don't think of storing all of them in an array. The memory can only hold n data where n is much smaller than 100 millions. You can access the disk though although it is much slower. How will you do it so that it is as efficient as possible?
Please write a function that accepts a floating number and returns its square-root. You may not use built-in square root function from your language. However, basic operators like addition, subtraction, multiplication are allowed. Please take into consideration the floating precision.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Epic (Madison, WI) in Aug 2009
Interview
I applied online for a position as a Project Manager, although the website has very vague job descriptions (intentionally, an employee told me) and I wasn't sure if that was exactly the best fit for me. I'm from the Milwaukee area and I had heard some good things (as well as a lot of negative things) about the company, which is why, as a recent college grad, I applied. Also, Madison is a great city, and I'd love to live there.
After I submitted my application, I was contacted within a couple of days about taking an online personality test and setting up a phone interview. The interview was pretty easy--it lasted only about a half an hour and the woman I spoke with was very nice. The personality test was a little strange. I'm not sure if they turn down people based solely on their responses to it, but I hope they don't, because I don't think it could possibly give them much useful information about the applicant.
A few days after the phone interview, I was emailed and asked to set up an on-site interview. The facilities are very nice, although it is way further outside of Madison than I had expected. Everyone I spoke to was friendly. And very young. I was given a quick, very uninformative tour and a company overview. Then I met with an HR person and had a rather short interview. He pretty much only asked situational questions. I would say it went pretty well, but then again he was so enthusiastic about literally everything I said/life in general, it was kind of hard to tell. After the interview I took three self-proctored tests, which took a little less than two hours, and were kind of tricky but nothing terrible.