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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 3 months)
Keep in mind Epic had huge turnover and growth, so HR process is set up for standardized throughput, not individual consideration. I think everything reduces to numberical scores, then they tally it at the end and give you a pass/fail. Very canned questions and process. Actual excerp from my phone interview: --I don't program--that's OK, we'll teach you. But, what languages do you program in? --I don't program. --OK, yes, that's right. But how many hours a week, outside of school, do you program? --Well, 1st, I graduated 10 years ago so am not in school, and, secondly, I don't program.
Email communications were very "form letter," surprisingly often with incorrect information unless you're a typical out-of-state college senior applicant, and hard to get a response from: a result of their number-crunching role, not unfriendliness. Resented some unreasonable requests (email I got late one evening, saying I had 24 hrs to log in and take their test, when I have a full-time job and appointments covering that entire period, or set times where I'd have to be at my home number to recieve a call), but they were accomodating when I told them I couldn't do them, and gave a reasonable alternative.
Best thing you can do is have fun with interviews and completely view them as YOU interviewing THEM to see if you're a match. Don't try to impress--try to learn. If they went to the trouble to interview you, you're already a good candidate in their eyes. If you hate the tests they give you perhaps it's not a good fit (I thought they were fun.) Push back past the very heavy Rah-rah-Epic propaganda to find the real picture of life there.
The people who stay (MANY quit or are forced out) generally are very friendly and happy, and like (justifiably) showing off their workplace. Very welcoming and impressive. They exult in their nerdiness and play it up more than, I think, the reality of it. Know thyself to know if you'll be one of those ranks, or prefer not to "drink the cool-aid" nor devote your entire time/life to a company.
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Reason for Declining
I haven't quite decided yet. Good pay for position, I suppose, but since I have experience could get much higher elsewhere. Worried about loosing my profession creds. I could do an outstanding job there, but I know from many insiders that my fate there may be largely dictated by random, inexperienced, self-serving people, rather than the objective quality of my work & efforts.
Never had so much fun with an interview process! So unconventional and ridiculous (does a PhD with 15 years experience REALLY need to submit SAT scores??) that I decided to enjoy the joke rather than stress about it. I went in assuming I wouldn't get it, and broke every interview rule to the point of brashness, and didn't put a lot of effort into any of the silly tests, and yet they kept coming back for more.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Project Manager/Implementation Consultant at Epic
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 3 weeks)
I was introduced to Epic through an employee referral. Had a half-hour phone interview and then a one-day interview on-site in Madison. They paid for everything.
The night before the interview, an Epic employee took several of us recruits to dinner at a nearby restaurant and gave us a walking tour of Madison. He answered a lot of our questions and provided a good deal of insight.
The following day, we visited the Epic campus in Verona, WI for the on-site interview. The campus s very large and continuously expanding. A host of different individuals ferried us around from meeting to meeting, we were given a brief overview of the software in a large group. Later, we were divided into smaller groups and went over the specifics of the job that we were being interviewed for. Then came lunch. The cafeteria is huge and offers a lot of food for extremely reasonable prices!
This was followed by a 10-minute presentation and then a 1:1 interview. Then I had to take a series of skills tests.
The work culture was fantastic! Everyone I met was young and energetic. I got a great vibe from the place!
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Developer at Epic
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
Asked some background of study experiences, like projects. Asked the future career plan, hobbies, code hours per week...
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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IW/TPM at Epic
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 5 weeks)
It's been said before and I agree, this is a strange recruiting process. I felt like a number, never a person. I recieved several e-mails from Epic recruiters telling me they pulled my resume off Monster.com. The letters were well-constructed and told me what a fit I would be for their position. Please go fill in our on-line application (a duplication of my resume) and then go take the Rembrandt Test. The e-mail assured me it would take no more than 20 minutes to take the test. Ok, I am a VERY fast reader and I have taken similar tests before so am familiar with it. I blasted thru the test, never hesitating, just kept moving rapitly. It took 45 minutest to take the test. So, are they trying to intimidate the applicant from the get-go? Or, is this just the beginning of a misleading process?
Following the Rembrant Test, a few weeks later, another e-mail came to set-up a telephone interview. The e-mail specifically asked for THE phone number I would be at - I provided my CELL number. The interviewer called my HOME number (it is on my resume).
To the question: "Overall, how difficuly was the interview?" It was a joke. While the kid was very polite, he was reading from a script and he was not a very good reader at that. I have significant work experience (read that, over 15 years), yet the kid continued to focus on my High School grades and my SAT scores. Who cares? I graduated from one of this country's preeminent engineering schools, High School is a blur in the past. (And, fwiw, my HS GPA was 3.3....oh, but I was working full time thru HS - not something this interviewer was interested in.) He concentrated more on HS/SAT than my college experience - and while I "only" had a 3.1 in college, I WORKED 40-60 HOURS/WEEK TO SUPPORT MYSELF TO GET THRU SCHOOL. How many of Epic's (or anybody's) other applicants could maintain a 3.1 while working a full time job? Of course, he was not interested in that. If I were only 21 years old, my HS grades 'might' seem important, but, that was a long time ago - he was not at all interested in my work experience. He did not ask one single question about any of my work experience. He called me by my last name; referred to my residence by the wrong state; yet he insisted he had my resume right in front of him.
As the 30-minute telephone interview came to a close, he told me I would be moving to the next step in the process, taking a proctored test (on my logical abilities) at the local library. He said someone from HR would contact me w/in 2 weeks to set it up. About 10 days later, I received the e-mail from HR telling me they certainly respected my many accomplishments, but decided I just was not a fit for Epic.
So, bottom line, my take on the whole thing is:
(1) Epic is growing rapidly (20% per year - both in business & enrollment); this is a good problem to have.
(2) However, the left hand doesn't seem to know what the right hand is doing.
(3) I would recommend some actual interviewer training - the kid who contacted me, while polite, left me
with a really poor impression of Epic. Granted, he was not from HR, but, he was put out there to represent
Epic.
(4) As an applicant, if you have more than 2 years of work experience, you are probably toooo experienced for
this place. You already have maturity & business accumen. They will be intimidated by your experience
and, therefore, you will not be a fit. Don't waste your time.
(5) If you are just graduating from college, this would probably be a great place to begin your career. I've done
significant research on Epic and it truly looks like a cool place to work; you will get a lot of good training
and experience; the philosophy of requiring "sales" people to actually have experience in the product - 1.5
years - before being allowed to "sell" to a customer is fantastic! That is only one of the things about Epic
that I found very attractive when I began looking at the company.
(6) Sadly, I am over 22 years old; I am over 30 years old - and so, I would never be included in the fold.
(7) A helpful hint for the process & interviewer: identify your position to the applicant. Based on the e-mail I received
from HR, "someone from our team will call you . . ." I was expecting someone from HR to call. So, admittedly,
I initially thought the interviewer was totally unprepared to do the job. VERY late in the conversation, he mentioned
something about his position - and only then did I realize he was not an HR person. Ok, so at that point, I mentally
granted him a reprieve. It would have been nice to know his role was technical, not HR, from the beginning.
I believe things happen for a reason, so no hard feelings here. Disappointment, yes; hard feelings, no. My best wishes to Epic for continued success and to all the recent college graduates who will be given offers of employment.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Project Manager/Implementation Consultant at Epic
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Madison, WI (took 2 weeks)
I received an e-mail from an Epic recruiter - she found my name through my university's job site. I accepted the invitation to interview.
Part 1 - traditional phone interview, which consisted of a very basic behavioral section ("Why Epic?", "What are your passions?", "Tell me about ___ on your resume.") followed by - you guessed it! - optional Q&A about the company. Are these ever truly optional? The interviewer was perfunctory (wooden, scripted), but very warm. One thing in Epic's favor - nearly everyone scrambles to be kind. I feel nothing less than bonhomie for the employees themselves, even if the company and job description turned out to be blander than a dry gourd.
Part 2 - a week later I get the OK to be flown out to Madison for a day of interviews. This amounts to precisely what every other interviewee has described: a presentation on any topic, a series of IQ and skill-based exams that loosely resembled the LSAT and GRE, a team-based strategic walkthrough of a politically sensitive event (you and one other person are asked to read and dissect a socially explosive scenario on a hypothetical job site), and a behavioral. Naturally, all costs are covered. I got to fly back to school in 1st class, which was lovely.
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Reason for Declining
The company is reviewed, seemingly unilaterally, on a negative to neutral basis. The work title is deceptive if not completely incongruent. This job amounts to basic B2B onboarding and customer service. It does not accord you the status of, say, the BA position at McKinsey. It will not groom you as well for work in strategy or operations. The work-life balance, and the social outlets in general, are not optimal. The salary is good, but if you're a hotshot looking for topnotch consulting experience, don't be fooled by the advertising. You will be entirely unsatisfied. People for whom I WOULD recommend this position: those interested in marketing electronic medical records, and those who have no real interest or direction (but don't lack for passion or skill - otherwise, you'll be weeded right out).
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Epic
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Madison, WI (took 2 months)
First is a phone interview, about 30 mins. Pretty easy, no technical question.
Second is the skill test assessment, taken in local school. Some questions on Math, IQ, New language and four programming questions.
The last one is on-site one. meet three software engineers and one hr person.
people are very nice and campus is very nice, too.
one thing I don't like is the weather, so cold on December. I think people from southern california might have a
tough time in madison.
two weeks after the on-site, receive a call of rejection and no reason for the rejection.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Technical Services Engineer at Epic
Posted Feb 4, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Verona, WI (took 3 weeks)
I received a personality screening after submitting my resume. The next step was a phone interview that discussed potential fit, the position, and growth opportunities. After two weeks, I was instructed to take an aptitude test in Wisconsin (any site near you would suffice).
After two weeks, I was told that I did not get the position.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Epic
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 4+ weeks)
Phone interview from project leader, asking some behavior and tech questions.
After the first phone interview, a skill asessment test is arranged, which takes around 3-4 hours.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Developer at Epic
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
Applied online and resume got selected. Then went through phone interview which was good and I cleared it to go for the second round. Very good interviewer on the phone, asked everything about previous experience, current work. Then gave a good description of the company.
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Software Engineer at Epic
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Unless you have a GPA at 3.7+, applying might be a waste of time. I have fantastic credentials, and went to a great institution where A's are difficult to come by with a major in CS, and a minor in Bio, and I've worked as a medical assistant previously, but my low 3.3 GPA killed me.
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