I applied at Epic online and was contacted a week later with a request to schedule a phone interview, as well as a link to take a 20-minute Rembrandt profile personality test. There were interview dates available within a week.

The interview was with an experienced (8 years) software developer at Epic, and lasted under 30 minutes.

A couple of days before the phone interview, I was contacted and told to take a skills assessment, which consisted of four parts:

• A section of multiple-choice math, logic, and English questions with a two-minute time limit.
• Another section of similar questions without a time limit.
• A series of multiple-choice questions relating to the syntax of an unfamiliar programming language.
• A section consisting of four programming questions, which could be answered in a variety of languages.

There was a four-hour time limit; I took two and a half hours. The programming section took up most of that time. The test was remotely proctored; a webcam was required, and no outside materials were allowed to be used.

I was then contacted three weeks later with a rejection email.

Phone interview:

Are you willing to relocate to Madison, WI? Where do you see yourself in five years? What programming languages are you proficient in? Explain a technical difficulty you faced in a previous project and how you solved it.

Skills Assessment:

Output the first ten terms of a look-and-see sequence, given a seed input.

Write a program which receives as input a string consisting of single-digit numbers, '+', '-', and '' and returns the mathematical result, reading from left to right. (for example, input: "1+42-3", output: 7)

Find all anagrams of an input string such that all uppercase letters and special characters retain their indices in the string.

Return all well-ordered numbers of n digits or fewer; a well-ordered number is a number such that the value of each digit is less than that of the next digit. (for example, 259 is well-ordered, while 187 is not.)