The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Epic (Madison, WI) in Jun 2009
Interview
1) 1st phone interview: general HR questions and resume review
2) 2nd phone interview with software engineer: ask project experiences
2) written programming test: 5 questions
3) on-site: one full-day interview (software demo, presentation, behavioral questions, technical questions)
The new campus is beautiful. Their work culture is very nice.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Epic (Madison, WI) in Jul 2009
Interview
I submitted my resume on Epic's website and got a email back in a couple days. The HR guy wanted me to submit an online Rembrandt personality test and set up a phone interview.
The personality test consisted of many questions like: "Rank these 4 items based on how true they are of you: a) Enjoys large crowds b) Avoids conflict with supervisors c) Does not like to work more than eight hours a day d) Prefers to work independently". There also were word analogy questions in there too: "Sun : Basketball :: Moon : Golf-ball/ping-pong ball/football/soccer ball". Finally, there were some pure math questions, which didn't seem to have anything to do with psychology profiling.
The phone interview occurred soon after that. I expected a technical interview, but it was mostly HR, with questions about my recent projects and such.
I was then told that I'd need to take a skills assessment test. This one is not online but needs to be proctored by some sort of 3rd party professional proctor. I took mine at the local library. There were 5 questions, each requiring some code in any popular language (or even psuedo-code). You are supposed to write down your start and end times for each question, because apparently the time you take for each question is factored into the grading. This means you really aren't supposed to go back and fix an answer to a previous question. The first 4 questions were easy, CS1 questions. The last one was trickier: "Write a function which, given n, prints all well-ordered integers of n digits. A well ordered number is one where the value of the i-th digit is less than the value of the i+1 digit."
I got rejected after the seemingly simple skills test. I believe I put too much emphasis on finishing the questions quickly (as I believe time is a factor in resulting score) and not pretty-ing up the answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function which, given n, prints all well-ordered integers of n digits. A well ordered number is one where the value of the i-th digit is less than the value of the i+1 digit.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Epic in Jul 2009
Interview
They emailed me and told me I had good chance of getting a job if I were to post my resume on their website. About a week after I submitted my resume, I got letter from them saying that they have looked at my resume, they said they like it, but they have decided to go with other candidates
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