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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 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Jan 25, 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 Dec 2011 in Madison, WI (took 2 months)
The hiring process was quite drawn out and different from any other company I have experienced. The culture was great and their campus is quite impressive.
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Reason for Declining
Not enough exit options. If I chose to work there for 5 years or more, I'd still have the same position. Basically not enough experience to put on my resume
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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, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Jan 8, 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 Jan 2012 in Verona, WI (took 2 months)
I posted my resume on Monster.com, and received an email the next day encouraging me to apply. The company seemed interesting, so I did. I had been looking for jobs in significantly different fields, so I wasn't sure much would come of it. However, I received the request to take the Rembrandt test, then had a phone interview, and now about to take the skills assessment. The application process has been quite extended, they tend to take approximately 1-2 weeks between the steps along the way. My impressions of Epic thus far have been positive.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 in Verona, WI (took 2 months)
Gave my resume to a recruiter at a career fair, and they emailed me to fill out an online profile and take a personality test. This led to a phone interview followed by a skills assessment. It was all basic math / logic based, not too difficult. Following the skills assessment I was invited to visit the campus outside Madison. The interview day was long but good, I really enjoyed that they had you talk to a lot of different people with plenty of opportunity to ask questions. It really helped me get a feel for the company.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation was necessary, their offer was very competitive.
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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, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Nov 20, 2011
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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 May 2010 (took a day)
generally standard. phone interview followed by onsite interview. good hotel lodging and air fare is included. on your interview date, you'll interview with 2 people. have lunch with your "group" and also have someone who tells you what the company is like, what the culture is like, etc
mainly questions about were fit and personality oriented. don't remember any technical questions on systems etc. they teach you all the programming you need to know later on after you're hired.
culture at epic is a bit hippy. they people are super nice, though i just didn't fit in well. the cold weather will get to you too after a while. seriously if you're from cali or the south, don't underestimate how 9 months of frozen arctic climate can drag on you.
assessment test can be a bit challenging. generally like an SAT, math/reasoning and verbal
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no
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Nov 9, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in Madison, WI (took a day)
Applied online through my college career center. Received an email back a few weeks later saying they wanted to do a phone interview. 30 minute phone interview talked about the company and the role. About two weeks later they emailed me saying they wanted to bring me onsite. Took a group of us out to dinner the night we got there and then had the interviews the next day.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Madison, WI (took 4 weeks)
After the online application followed a personality test, then a phone interview. After about three weeks I had a skill test sceduled at a library in town. It contained programming and math problems. I thought I did pretty good on it, but apparently not good enough. The next step would have been an onsite interview that I did not get.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Aug 15, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 months)
My resume on Monster grabbed their interest and they contacted me. I sent them a revised resume and cover letter a few days after. A Rembrandt profile followed and had really basic questions.
About a week later, I began to schedule a phone interview. The HR guy I corresponded was extremely flaky and did not respond to emails very well at all. Most of the time I had to cc Epic's main HR email address to get the guy to respond. Took 4 weeks, three reschedulings, and one wasted hour where I waited for an interview that never came. Finally after four weeks I got the phone interview out of the way. Like many postings here, the phone interview wasn't a big deal and didn't seem to improve my chances of getting the job at all.
They next had me fly into Madison. Stayed in a terrific hotel and had dinner with an employee and another recruit that night. Next day, I was cabbed into Epic and got a whirlwind tour of the campus (impressive) and the software (not that impressive). Had a summary of the job given to a few of us by someone who worked there. Lunch was good and solidified my view that this place is for people who didn't want to leave college. Then I had an 1:1 oral test where I looked at various scenarios and prioritized them, it was really straightforward and easy. Next came something they called "wrap-up", which was basically a 1:1 interview in disguise. A few more questions, this time focused on my personality and with nothing that's not already mentioned in other reviews here. Last were the skills tests. A speed math test, followed by longer math, verbal, and programming. I didn't feel that any portion was hard at all. After that I wandered around the campus. For all the cool stuff they have in the hallways, I don't see that many people around to make the stuff worth being there. It seems strangely quiet throughout, which is fine because it's a workplace, but why then make it look like an amusement park? I wouldn't call it a cult, because everybody there really is normal and rational, but there was a definite eerie vibe in all the unused grandeur.
Sent a thank-you to the "wrap-up" interviewer. Got a call a week later from her saying they would move forward with other applicants. Hate that phrase, it's like I'm bogging them down with my very presence. It must have been the GPA. I went to a good school, got good standardized test scores, was familiar with many programming languages, and thought I did well on Epic's interviews and tests. What makes it confusing is that they knew my GPA from the start. Regardless, the transcripts I gave them in Madison must have done a good job of dissuading them. Oh well, it was a fun weekend. (first class seats all the way back!)
Madison's a really random place to live anyway.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Aug 6, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Madison, WI (took a day)
pretty quick -- i got a phone interview and a week later they flew me up. they do a lot of testing. there's an math puzzle test and a basic programming test (so they test for apitutde to pick up more complex stuff). so for example, they give tell u what a print function does then give u some sample code and asks what it does. and the test gets harder and harder as they introduce more functions and stuff. there's also an 1 on 1 interview and a scenario.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Technical Services at Epic
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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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 Jul 2011 in Madison, WI (took 4+ weeks)
I got through the phone interview and was invited for the final round interview at the campus. I got the chance to meet people in the role and had two 1:1 interviews which were some basic work scenarios and fit questions. I'll hear back in 2 weeks. They do stress that they are looking for young smart problem solvers. There's not much preparation for it either you fit or you dont.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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