Epic came to our campus in Fall 2012. I submitted a resume at the career fair for an intern position but unfortunately didn't even get called for an interview then. Maybe my qualifications were a bit less then, considering I'm an Electrical Engineering major with a minor in Computer Science.

But to my surprise, after almost a year, they sent me an email saying that my graduation was coming soon and I might be fit for their Software Development position. I went ahead and replied to the email, sending my resume. I then got a phone interview in about 2 days.

The phone interview was very relaxed. The interviewer was a Software Developer and asked me to talk about my projects and experience. He also described the company and asked me why I chose to apply to Epic. Later on, he told me the opportunities available at Epic and how I would fit in well.

The phone interview consisted of two technical questions: one about linked lists and the other about pointers. Although they were pretty easy, as an EE major, I couldn't really answer them right away. But I showed them my thought process, and the interviewer was quite impressed with that.

Later on, the next day, I got an email to schedule an assessment test.

The assessment test had four sections:

• 2 Minute Section
• Math
• New Programming language
• Programming

The 2-Minute section had 10 SAT-based questions to be solved in 2 minutes. I think this was basically to test speed and how quickly one responds to things.

The Math section had 14 questions and included pretty easy ones too, not too bad for someone who's done Engineering. There were no probability or statistics questions, just basic SAT-based questions, but a bit tricky.

The New Language Section introduced a new programming language. It was easy. Just know the basics of programming, read the questions carefully, and you'll get through them easily. Use common sense also; don't completely go by the questions. They are tricky too.

Finally, the programming section had 4 questions. They were detail-oriented. One had to think it over carefully. One of the questions was about seed product. Consider a number, like 123. The product of the number with its digits (123 * 1 * 2 * 3 = 738) is 738. Therefore, 123 is the seed product of 738. Write a program to accept a number and find all possible seed products. For example, if the user entered 4977, then the answer should be 79 and 711.

Although I couldn't do all of the questions and wrote one in pseudocode, I think the interview process is really amazing. But it also screens out a lot of people who can't program right away and need some syntax help. I think Epic misses out on such people who might be extremely intelligent and might have a lot to offer from various fields of Engineering which Epic could really use.

They asked about in-depth programming.