Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Epic nel mese di feb 2020
Colloquio
Applied as a university new-grad, within a day received an invitation for a phone screen along with a series of online screenings. Phone screen with a developer was very straightforward, typical 'what drew you to Epic', 'tell us about a recent project' questions along with resume review and basic familiarity about languages and practices.
The online screenings consisted of a 'Rembrandt Profile' personality test, along with the more formal 3-hour skills test which consisted of a short math section, a multiple choice section about learning a made-up programming language, and three programming questions. Problems themselves wouldn't be too bad (string manipulation, recursion, and dynamic programming) if not for the awful code editor, you can't actually compile your code to run test cases. The Examity proctoring company is pretty bad too, if you use scratch paper you have to tilt your webcam down to the paper while writing, and any background noise triggers the proctor to make you rotate your camera around the room to show nobody else is there.
Received a request for transcripts and another phone screen a week and a half later, more STAR-esque questions rather than technical, received a rejection a week thereafter.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Given a string and the following table (containing letters/numbers and the corresponding number and number of presses required on a phone keypad - A is 22, B is 222, D is 33, etc), write a function that will convert the string into the series of keypresses that will produce the text on an old-school cell phone keypad. Your function should be case-insensitive, ignore non alphanumeric characters, and in the case of consecutive letters that share a number (i.e A and B), separate them with a #.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Epic (San Francisco, CA)
Colloquio
Medium level leetcode and then a very basic system design question as a final round interview. Overall, smooth and simple process. Only one technical and it was the first one.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
How would you design a system to minimize wait time at a health care center?
First round is a thirty minute phone call with one of their developers. The other part of the first round is a three hour exam with IQ test style logic questions and coding questions.
[OA] OA was fair. Programming part are leetcode easy and easy-mediums, straightforward simulation, backtracking, dfs, strings, etc. No DP/graphs but ymmv.
[Final interview] (Case Study) I think the interviewer came up with their own prompt. It's mostly discussion-based, with a virtual white board. It's not too technical. I'm guessing its testing your communication/logical reasoning than system design skills. (Pair programming) 1 question, same format as the OA on the same platform, leetcode easy.
[Overall] Technical difficulty isn't bad. Interviewers who are current software devs seemed friendly. Had a good experience, yet got rejected.