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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Epic
Posted Feb 5, 2012
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3.0
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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
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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
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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
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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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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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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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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Reporting Engineer at Epic
Posted Jan 30, 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 in Madison, WI (took 2 months)
Very laid back. Easy interview and fun site visit. Good people, seems like a great place to work.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Project Manager/Implementation Consultant at Epic
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Most reviews already covered the relatively intense interview process. There is an intense computer-programming test, among other tests including English grammar, etc. If you have no computer programming experience, this test will be extremely difficult. The interview process is very intense and tiring, probably representative of the job itself. It is well organized though and you meet many people working there, and get to have lunch with an employee.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Project Manager/Implementation Consultant at Epic
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Madison, WI (took 2 days)
I submitted my application online for an HR position with the company, and was contacted fairly quickly to set up a phone interview. The phone interview was supposed to include a visual aspect, but the program wasn't functioning quite right, so we just talked on the phone. A lot of the basics were covered - what do you know about the company, what makes you think you'd be a good fit, etc. What was different about Epic was that they focused a lot on what I had accomplished in college, which is very much in line with their hiring practice of recruiting top college students. At the end of the phone interview I was invited out to Madison for an in person interview. The available dates were emailed to me, and my travel plans were set up through a series of emails. Their travel department took care of all the reservations. It was a very efficient process from my view.
In Madison, they had set up a dinner with an Epic employee, which I unfortunately missed due to a flight delay. Being a Sunday night, I had to call my hotel to get let the employee know I wasn't coming - there was no good way to get a hold of them, but that wasn't a big deal since there were so many Epic recruits there to begin with. Actually, that was a key phrase of my trip to Madison - Epic recruit. It's what I told the taxi driver, the hotel desk worker, the barista. It was a pretty accepted practice to just take care of us.
A group of us from the hotel took a taxi to Epic the next morning. The campus certainly has a grand entrance, and entering into Andromeda, the main building, was intimidating and exciting. It's a beautiful building, and you can see the rest of the campus buildings from there. Almost a dozen of us were there for the earliest session when it was all said and done. Each of us had a recruiter for the day, giving it a nice personal touch. I was actually being considered for both the HR position I applied for as well as the project manager position (which I think most everyone is considered for whether they apply to it or not).
I was given an overview of each position by someone who had performed the job, and then I had one on one interviews for each position. There was also a group session for the project management position that involved a case study concept. After that I had a presentation to give - 10 minutes on a subject of my choice, no powerpoint allowed. From there I was given my last one on one interview for the day from my recruiter, then sent to a room for some standardized skill testing, which took about 2 hours if I recall correctly. After that we were put back in a cab and sent back to the airport.
Overall, it was an exhausting day that I wasn't quite prepared for, but was an excellent experience. They were great at working with me around my full-time schedule, and the other candidates seemed more friendly than competitive. The company means it when they say they want the best though, and they've designed an interview process that can help them meet that as effectively as possible - they only hire something like 5% of applicants or less, after all.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Project Manager/Implementation Consultant at Epic
Posted Jan 25, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Verona, WI (took 2 months)
I uploaded my resume to Monster and a recruiter contacted me sometime later encouraging me to apply for some positions at Epic. I filled out an application online, basic stuff. Then I got an email asking me to take a skills/personality test. After that my recruiter emailed me for a phone interview. It took a week or two to set up, but once it was set up, she called right on time and it was a relatively quick and painless interview. She then invited me to the next step of the interview process, in Wisconsin.
When I was in Wisconsin, I had a paid-for dinner with an employee and three other recruits. They were all really nice and smart. The employee said the dinner was purely for asking questions and just having a nice time, and that he wouldn't be reporting anything back to HR. It was a great opportunity to ask questions and get honest answers. He was positive about Epic, of course, but he was also straightforward about the fact that it's not for everyone.
The hotel was pretty sweet. Normal hotel, but each person I talked to either had one king size bed or two full size beds. I didn't need two full size beds, but I'm not complaining. Also Epic offered to pay for everything in the hotel besides alcohol and in-room movies -- I doubt anyone abused the privilege, but it was still nice to have there for little things (soda, snacks, toiletries if you forget them, etc.). They really take care of their recruits!
Epic and the hotel had provided us with breakfast cards, so the next morning I went up to eat and saw some other recruits there, whose start time was, like mine, 8:30 am. After breakfast we piled into a taxi to get us to Epic, checked in at the front desk, and waited with the other recruits.
We were split up into groups, but the groups don't mean too much other than what floor is your (usual) meeting point for the day. Everyone got their own schedule, and then the group went to an info session and watched a demo of an Epic product. Then we got split up to do a quick mini-tour of the building and we got to go down the slide. Afterward, a Project Manager met with me and two other recruits to talk about the position.
The day consisted of three 1:1 interviews, a case study with one other recruit, a mini-math test, a relatively more extensive math test, a verbal test, and a programming test (not "real" programming, just working with a fake language to see how well you can follow programming-style directions). There was also a presentation that I'd prepared beforehand. Everyone was really nice throughout the process...there were a couple people who I felt like thought they had better things to do than be interviewing me, but nonetheless everyone made me feel pretty comfortable.
Lunch was good (and paid for) -- I heard somewhere later that the employee you and the recruits go to lunch with DO report back to HR, but I wasn't told that when I was there, so I'm not sure how true it is, but I bet it is. After the interview day was over, I sat in the waiting room eating cookies and playing with the iPads and Nintendo DSes until my cab to the airport got there.
I got a little nervous since most people here who got offers seem like they heard back within the first seven days (the company tells you they'll get back to you within two weeks), so when they called ten days later, I wasn't sure what to expect...but I got an offer! I asked for some time to consider the offer and accepted a week later.
The best advice I got was from the employee I had dinner with: Just be yourself! I was sitting in the airport earlier that day trying to think of ways to impress them, but once the employee said you can tell when people are trying way too hard, I decided to go in and just be me. And it worked!
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The employee I had dinner with said there wasn't much point in trying to negotiate, but that that'd be OK, because you'd like the offer, anyway. He was right.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Developer at Epic
Posted Jan 25, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Madison, WI (took 2+ weeks)
I was contacted for a personality test first. Then I was scheduled for a phone interview. The phone interview was basically based on past work experience and general behavioral questions. It lasted for an hr or so. I was then scheduled for a skills assessment test which had some math, vocab, and coding related questions. It lasted for about 3 hours.
Overall the communications were over email and the HR wasn't prompt and professional enough in communications. The skills assessment test is the same for entry level/experience professionals which I think doesn't make sense.
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