After applying, I got contacted within one or two days about scheduling a phone interview.

The phone interview was pretty standard, and since the details were so thoroughly documented on Glassdoor and other forums, I was able to have detailed, relevant, and rehearsed answers prepared for all the questions thrown at me. All in all, pretty low stress, and the guy I talked to was very kind, patient, and helpful in getting my own questions answered.

The skills interview was probably the most terrifying and stressful part of the process. You will be required to download and run a program that proctors you and prevents you from using outside resources (locking the test and webcam to make sure you don't leave in the middle of a part).

There were three parts in total:

• A timed assessment
• A multiple-choice section
• A coding section

The timed assessment is a collection of short questions that are relatively easy to answer, but you only have a couple of minutes to answer them all. The idea is speed—get through as many as you can before your time is up. If you're decently fast, completing them all is not incredibly difficult; I didn't because I forgot I had a calculator.

The big part is the one about coding. There are a few questions that are essentially coding prompts. You are allowed to code in Java, C++, C, and I think a couple of others, but you do not have access to an IDE; it's essentially just a text editor. Brushing up on CS basics like recursion and data structures, as well as practicing practice interview code questions online, are great resources to you in preparing for this one. It's definitely the hardest part and the biggest time sink of the three.

The last part is a multiple-choice quiz. There are several questions that are basically general problem-solving MC, mostly pertaining to coding with very little actual coding; nothing to be stressed over.

The in-person interview was my favorite part of the process, as you get to come to the Epic campus in Verona for nearly a full day (5 hours). I can't comment on the travel process since I'm local, but I do know they pay for most, if not all, your travel expenses, including a plane ticket and hotel, as well as taxi to and from the campus itself.

It's a day-long ordeal, with the morning being filled with very cool and low-stress activities pertaining to learning all about Epic. This includes demos of their products (incredibly cool, by the way), chatting with a dev team member and picking their brains about their work and workflow, and a tour of Epic's campus. If you haven't seen it before, just know it's like a three-way cross between Disney World, a modern tech campus, and a garden park; absolutely stunning and probably worth going through the entire interview process just to get a ticket to come see it.

Lunch is provided by Epic.

The afternoon is where the actual interviewing comes in. There will be three parts, all of them one-on-one.

The first was a conversation about a project you worked on. The interviewer will ask lots of questions pertaining to the process of the project, your algorithms, and what you might do to improve it. This part might require a lot of work on your part to dig up an old project and memorize how you made it, why and how you made it work the way it does, and what improvements you might make to it or the process, but if you're passionate about a project, it should be a cinch.

The second part was a case study. The interviewer gives a specific scenario to you, and you have to come up with a solution (you have a whiteboard to help you). This doesn't need to be pseudo code, just whatever helps you and the interviewer visualize the solution. The interviewer is very interactive, pointing out edge cases and other kinks in your ideas, as well as encouraging you and providing hints.

The last interview was a standard interview for the most part. If you've practiced other interviews, you'll likely also be prepared for this one. Essentially, it's the phone interview part two; if you prepared any questions for the phone interview that they didn't ask already, chances are this is where it'll happen.

If you can survive the food coma after lunch and have prepared well, the day is very enjoyable. Epic's interviewers and other employees are magnanimous throughout the whole process, answering all your questions and being incredibly kind and courteous.

Tell me about a project you've completed in the past, how it works, how you made it, and things you might improve about it.