I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Epic in Nov 2014
Interview
I applied for this position online after being reached out to by a recruiter and initially communicated via email. After sending my resume, I completed a short phone interview (around half an hour) of basic interview questions. After that, I completed a two hour writing sample consisting of three different prompts. Following that, I was required to complete two different standardized tests (one was allegedly a personality assessment and the other tested various critical reasoning skills) that took around two and a half hours total. I had a very short time frame in which to complete the above assessments (5 days) and didn't make it further in the interview process. I was emailed by a different person for every other step of the process which was a little confusing-the whole process seemed very disjointed to me but each recruiter that emailed me was very open to questions and relatively informative about the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There weren't really any difficult questions to me, all were pretty standard interview questions like "where do you see yourself in five years" and "what's your biggest weakness" or "why are you interested in this position," etc.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Epic (Verona, WI) in Oct 2014
Interview
Step 1--I applied online through Epic's website. There was a short application to fill out and I also had to send my transcript, a resume, and a cover letter
Step 2--I was contacted by email within a few days to set up a phone interview. They gave me several days/times to choose from. The phone interview was about 30 minutes and the woman I talked to was really helpful and easy to talk to because she was employed as a technical writer (the position I was applying for).
Step 3--I had to complete a 3 part writing sample test. Part one was writing up an article based on information listed, part two was writing a press release, and part three was commenting on two cover letters. There was also a Personality Profile to complete (Rembrandt Personality Profile).
Step 4--I had to schedule an "E-proctored" exam. It had 4 parts: a timed question part where I got 2 minutes to answer as many short questions as I could (they were math and logic questions). The other parts were English language skills, math skills and a part where I had to answer questions about a computer programming language. The "E-proctoring" part of the exam requires you to have a computer with a webcam and speakers.
Step 5--Would have been a day-long in person interview and tour of the headquarters in Verona.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Also, the math and programming sections of the exam was difficult for me since I haven't done math recently and had no experience with programming or coding.
After my initial application, I was asked to set up a phone interview. The phone interview was fairly standard, with the interviewer asking me general questions about what I was looking for out of a job/company. He was friendly and answered all of my questions about the position and training process for it. After the interview I was asked to set up a test at a proctored testing location as part of the next step of the process. Upon taking this test, I realized that the position was not going to be for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The written test was difficult. You were asked to read about basic computing/programming processes and were then given questions about what you had read, but were not allowed to refer back to the material. Since I had zero background knowledge on the subject, I found this challenging. I also did not think that the information was written in a straightforward/clear way. Maybe this was part of the test.