I met an Epic recruiter during a job fair. I applied online in February for a different position and then received an email with a link to the Rembrandt Personality Test; there was a focus on what you are NOT.

I heard back from HR to schedule a phone interview at 1 pm or 4 pm CST. I gave HR a few days that would work.

The phone interview was extremely short, only 15 minutes (I'm really anal retentive and pay attention to stuff like that - also, cognitive dissonance because they told me it would be around 30 to 40 minutes), and consisted mostly of the interviewer, who was in the position to which I originally applied, checking my GPA, SAT, and work experience. I could hear her typing into her computer.

Then, she talked extensively about her position, making sure that I understood what the position was like and giving me very specific details about her job tasks. A few days later, HR contacted me again to set up the online proctored test.

I took it. They told me that they would reimburse me for any expenses (like a taxi) to the test site and to prepare for it to take 2-3 hours. It took me less than an hour.

The 2-minute math test was something that I could've gotten through, had I not slowed myself down with my calculator. It's all super simple mental math. I used to be an Accounting major and do all of my work in my head and later double check with my calculator; I am really strong in computational ability and kicked myself for even utilizing the calculator. The calculator proves useful later on, but it's definitely not worth using during the 2-minute math sprint of 10 questions.

The verbal part was like the old SAT with tons of analogies. Do you know what cupidity means? (I don't think that was actually on there, but it's probably at the same level as the vocabulary.) If you do, you'll be fine.

There was an LSAT-like section with logic games. I was diagramming like crazy on my scratch sheet. I passed and got invited to the on-site interview. They paid for my flight, hotel, dinner, breakfast, and taxi rides.

There were tons of us in there; the guy that I met as I sat in the waiting area told me that there were 30 Epic candidates in his hotel alone.

We were taken upstairs and given folders with our schedule. HR uses the 2nd-floor waiting area as a place to pick up and drop off people; it is stocked with freshly baked goods and drinks. I chatted with the other candidates and the guy told me that he had physical presentation materials for his brief presentation, since he wasn't allowed to use Powerpoint. Everyone interviewing for the Project Manager/Implementation Specialist position seemed to have some sort of presentation preparation on hand.

I personally had a really nice time when I interviewed. I had the brief tour and software demo at the start of the day. Then I talked to two QA people, one of whom gave me a case study interview. Considering that I come from a business background, I expected the case study noted on Glassdoor to be intense, with reams of reading and data, and really difficult and tricky. Not so. It's about how you prioritize competing needs.

One of the people with whom I shared my taxi back to the airport said that the case study was the hardest part of her day, because it didn't have clear-cut answers like programming. Take from that what you will.

I spent lunch talking to a PM about the Madison area and the company in general with two other candidates. The food was restaurant-quality and the calorie counts are thoughtfully provided on the menus outside of the cafeteria.

I had my HR interview after lunch and it was very chill. Again, I'm used to business-type interviews where everyone wears black power suits and the interviewer probably has an MBA and 20 years of industry experience; he wants to weed out the weak, has no patience, and has not actually read my resume. He wants to know why a current college student is remotely qualified for a position in his company and the focus is on my worthless, meager experience.

In contrast, my Epic interviewer was incredibly nice and kind and she asked me standard behavioral questions. Also, Epic lets people wear what they want so a lot of people were wearing khaki pants or jeans; the tone was therefore very different.

I got dropped off in the library after my HR interview was over. There were delicious freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and a printer to print my boarding pass. I got sent in a taxi to the airport with two programming candidates. They had advanced degrees and spent a good chunk of the ride talking about high-level mathematics. Also, their interview experience was far, far more grueling than my QA interview experience and they were talking about the code they'd seen.

My HR rep told me that she'd get back to me within two weeks. It took less than a week for her to call me with an offer. She went over benefits and requirements and she sent my offer letter promptly.

Have you ever written out instructions for someone else to do what you do?