I received a phone call. It was mainly a behavioral type of interview. The people were friendly, and it seems like a good fit.

Then, I was sent an invite to complete the online assessment at a fixed time in the next 5 days.

I went into the interview and had no exposure to ProctorU. Although you have the benefit of being at home while taking a test, the process felt really invasive. The proctor is looking at you through your computer screen the entire time. They don't tell you that you should have a water bottle ready; luckily, I had one with me. The interview set up took about an hour to fully work. I had an authentication stage where I had to verify my information with ProctorU. They asked me information about myself which I didn't know they had (old phone numbers, emails, family emails, etc.).

The interview took about 4-5 hours, which I didn't know beforehand. One section was an ACT/SAT type, as others said. One section tested your knowledge on learning a new language. They give you a set of rules to learn, and then you answer questions based on all the language rules that they have introduced to you.

Then, the final part was 4 questions to program. They are questions you can find on LeetCode. I would say 2 easy and 2 medium types. You could not compile your code. They also wrote, "CS majors must use Java/C++, C." Since I had not used any of these languages in a year, given that I mostly worked with JavaScript and Python, I used Python. I think that any language that the candidate prefers, given the list of options, should be respected. What about data scientists who use Python? I think they have these biases that don't make sense.

Then, I was sent a link to complete my Rembrandt profile. This too was a test! It tested your personality as well as your ability to answer arbitrary analogy problems that the ACT/SAT discarded less than 10 years ago. Please take a hint from people who make the ACT/SAT and do the same with this section.

Overall, I felt that the technology interview process was outdated, especially the ACT/SAT/personality type. I don't feel comfortable with any company relying on a personality quiz to hire candidates. The entire interview with ProctorU was a huge time sinker, which the emails from Epic did not warn me about or tell me how ProctorU works.

That said, I did appreciate the phone screen prior to the technical interview. If the process was reversed, I would not have done the test.

Given that this was an internship interview, it seems as if it is the same caliber as a full-time software developer.

Overall, the process could definitely be condensed.

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