Epic came to our campus in Fall 2012, I submitted a resume in the career fair for an intern position. But unfortunately didn't even get called for an interview then. Maybe my qualifications were a bit less then, considering I'm an Electrical Engineering major with a minor in Computer Science.
But to my surprise, after almost an year, they send me an email saying that my graduation is coming soon, and I may be fit for their Software Development position. I go ahead and reply to the email and send my resume. I then get a phone interview in about 2 days.
The phone interview was very relaxed. The interviewer was a Software Developer and asked me to talk about my projects and experience. He also described about the company and asked me why I chose to apply to Epic. Later on, he told me the opportunities available at Epic and how I would fit in good.
The phone interview consisted of two technical question. One about linked lists and the other about some pointers. Although they were pretty easy, me being a EE major couldn't really answer them right away. But I showed them by thought process and the interviewer was quite impressed with that.
Later on, the next day, I get an email to schedule an assessment test.
The assessment test had four sections:
1. 2 Minute Section
2. Math
3. New Programming language
4. Programming
The 2-Minute section had 10 SAT based questions to be solved in 2 minutes. I think this was basically to test out your speed and how quickly you respond to things.
The Math section had 14 questions, and had pretty easy ones too. Not that bad for someone who's done Engineering. No probability or Statistics questions. Basic SAT based questions but a bit tricky.
The New Language Section introduces a new programming language. It was easy. Just know the basics of programming and read the questions carefully and you'll get through them easily. Use common sense also, don't completely go by the questions. They are tricky too.
Finally, the programming section had 4 questions. They were detail oriented. One had to carefully think it over. One of the questions was about seed product. Consider a number 123, the product of the number with its digits (123*1*2*3 = 738) is 738. Therefore, 123 is the seed product of 738. Write a program to accept a number and find all possible seed products. For example, If the user entered 4977 then the answer should be 79 and 711.
Although, I couldn't do all of the questions and wrote one in pseudo code. I think the interview process is really amazing. But it also screens out a lot of people who can't program right away and need some syntax for help. I think Epic misses out on such people who might be extremely intelligent and might have a lot to offer from various fields of Engineering which Epic could really use.