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Software Developer Interview Experience - Madison, Wisconsin

November 1, 2020
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

  1. Online behavioral and short IQ test-like problems (untimed)

  2. Phone call interview

  • Culture and benefits seem decent.
  • You will have to work a lot more than usual, usually more than M-F (very poor work-life balance).
  • Technology is very slowly transitioning from old to new.
  1. Online assessment (1-4 hours depending on how fast you can code)
  • Graded based on: correctness, speed, readability, and etc.
  • This is proctored; someone will literally watch you for the entire duration. Any small look away from the camera, they will question you. Tabbing out will cause the test to pause.
  • You can only go to the bathroom during breaks in the test, otherwise, you forgo your exam.
  • 2-minute IQ test, almost impossible to get through; must work fast.
  • Answer 20 questions about their own made-up logic programming language.
  • Coding problems are on a notepad, so no help with autocomplete or syntax check. You must run through your own test cases without running the code.

Technology for testing looks outdated and not pleasant to look at. Overall, just a terrible way to assess someone's ability to be a good software developer/engineer.

Questions

Phone Interview:

Standard interview questions:

  • Brief introduction of yourself
  • Willing to relocate to Madison?
  • Experience?

Coding Questions:

  1. Balanced brackets: [ ], ( ), { }
  2. Contiguous array range summation to target number
  3. Ordered password combinations of length N (e.g., Abc = good, abc = good, aAbc = bad, acb = bad)
  4. Longest jump

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 287 interview experiences for the Epic Systems Software Developer role in Madison, Wisconsin.

Success Rate

23%
Pass Rate

Epic Systems's interview process for their Software Developer roles in Madison, Wisconsin is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral33%
Negative6%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Epic Systems's Software Developer interview process in Madison, Wisconsin.