I submitted my resume on their website and was contacted a couple of weeks later.

They started with a first round of phone interview with one of their developers. He asked me basic questions, probably filling out a prescribed form by the company. None of the questions were difficult or interesting at all, so I found it rather boring.

In fact, the developer lacked the enthusiasm that I found in the people who interviewed me from other companies; he sounded bored and tired from the job. It's quite ironic that I didn't get a very good impression from the company, but I answered his questions in the most polite way anyway.

Several days later, HR informed me that I had passed the first basic round and they moved me forward to the assessment round. They booked an appointment for me at a proctor center, which was very convenient in my city.

The assessment test consisted of four parts:

• reasoning/logic
• math
• personality assessment
• programming

As someone whose study covers a wide range of topics in CS, the assessment was rather boring for me. The questions were rather easy and, in my opinion, can't reflect how good I will be as a developer.

The programming questions were alright, but the framework they used lacked too many features for programming; I found it very frustrating from the lack of code-formatting support in the editor. The questions weren't particularly easy, but they weren't difficult either.

And then there were personality assessment questions, which I found very boring. I finished the whole assessment in two and a half hours, and I think I answered the questions very well.

Two or three days later, HR reached me again and informed me that they wanted to move me to the final round with an engineer and an HR staff member. This time, the engineer was better, and he was enthusiastic about the company.

He asked me some technical questions which I answered easily, and he also asked me some personality questions, too. After the call, an HR staff member called me again, and she was very friendly and upbeat. She talked about life in Madison and answered many of my questions.

I think the final round was better than the first phone call, but that doesn't convince me to like the technology the company uses any better.

Two days after the interview, HR contacted me and informed me of my offer. The number was really good, considering the low cost of living in Madison. I was swayed a bit, but I guess money wasn't enough to convince me to commit to VB6.

A week later, I received an offer from a big company (one of the biggest names in Silicon Valley), so I walked away from the Epic offer.

Overall, it was an okay experience. Their HR was very quick to respond to my inquiries, so I consider that a bonus point for their hiring process. But I think they can use some improvement in the way they hire developers. Also, if they don't move away from VB6 quickly, many people will be dissuaded from joining the company, like me.

None of the questions were hard at all. If you have a good fundamental in CS, you shouldn't have any problems.