Software Engineer Interview Experience - Madison, Wisconsin
May 15, 2026
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer
Process
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week.
The interview was over the phone, no video call, which I was surprised by, because I haven't had it before. Pretty standard behavioural and experience questions, ex. talk about your experiences, relevant projects that you've done. The interviewer was also very warm and talked highly about the company.
There were also a few online assessments, these were not standard. One of them asked me to do the Rembrandt assessment, which I've been asked for before, and one of them was many technical questions in 4 different categories, on some platform that I'd never seen before.
Questions
Tell me about a relevant project that you've worked on.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 161 interview experiences for the Epic Systems Software Engineer role in Madison, Wisconsin.
Success Rate
7%
Pass Rate
Epic Systems's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Madison, Wisconsin is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive44%
Neutral39%
Negative17%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Epic Systems's Software Engineer interview process in Madison, Wisconsin.
Epic Systems Work Experiences
4.0
Good Culture, Annoying Hr
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
September 24, 2025
Pros: Good culture, lots of benefits, and an overall organized structure.
Cons: HR can be annoying, and there is little autonomy.
2.0
Decent, but unfulfilling
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
November 16, 2021
Pros: Good pay in a low COL area. People there are nice. Subsidized food, your own office (good and bad). You can set your boundaries and choose how hard you work. Your compensation will reflect your decision, and they are fine with what you choose.
Company cares about your growth (within the company), so you have some freedom on what internal projects and responsibilities you want. You can choose more leadership versus technical as well.
Good stepping stone to FAANG or other jobs, even if the tech stack leaves much to be desired (FAANG doesn't care, since they are going to train you anyways).
In my opinion, if you can navigate Epic and its disaster of tech, everything else will come easy.
Cons: The platform is a behemoth tied together by a lot of super glue. Most of the business logic is written in a language called Mumps, which is incredibly limited in features.
You can forget about data structures/classes and anything related to modern software development. For the most part, you're mostly doing CRUD with some extra steps in the middle. Be prepared to deal with a lot of spaghetti code. The inability to abstract business logic in a decent way is already hurting the company's ability to build features in a timely manner (Hyperspace Web was years behind schedule).
There's no widespread automated unit testing or integration testing, but I hear they're trying to make it more standard. This reinforces the spaghetti and makes refactoring impossible and discouraged. Testing is done by QA type roles.
You do get a taste of modern programming with TypeScript, but that's limited to FrontEnd development.
However, it seems like the way the internal metrics are set up, Epic somehow prefers the company spend 100 hours each on 5 features (for a total of 500 hours) compared to 200 hours spent on proper architecture and then 30 hours spent each on the 5 features (350 hours).
1.0
Nice Campus, Complicated System
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
June 24, 2024
Pros: Nice campus and nice food you can eat.
Cons: A complicated system that makes all projects complicated.
- 4.0Good Culture, Annoying HrSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeMadison, Wisconsin, United StatesSeptember 24, 2025Pros: Good culture, lots of benefits, and an overall organized structure.Cons: HR can be annoying, and there is little autonomy.
- 2.0Decent, but unfulfillingSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeMadison, Wisconsin, United StatesNovember 16, 2021Pros: Good pay in a low COL area. People there are nice. Subsidized food, your own office (good and bad). You can set your boundaries and choose how hard you work. Your compensation will reflect your decision, and they are fine with what you choose. Company cares about your growth (within the company), so you have some freedom on what internal projects and responsibilities you want. You can choose more leadership versus technical as well. Good stepping stone to FAANG or other jobs, even if the tech stack leaves much to be desired (FAANG doesn't care, since they are going to train you anyways). In my opinion, if you can navigate Epic and its disaster of tech, everything else will come easy.Cons: The platform is a behemoth tied together by a lot of super glue. Most of the business logic is written in a language called Mumps, which is incredibly limited in features. You can forget about data structures/classes and anything related to modern software development. For the most part, you're mostly doing CRUD with some extra steps in the middle. Be prepared to deal with a lot of spaghetti code. The inability to abstract business logic in a decent way is already hurting the company's ability to build features in a timely manner (Hyperspace Web was years behind schedule). There's no widespread automated unit testing or integration testing, but I hear they're trying to make it more standard. This reinforces the spaghetti and makes refactoring impossible and discouraged. Testing is done by QA type roles. You do get a taste of modern programming with TypeScript, but that's limited to FrontEnd development. However, it seems like the way the internal metrics are set up, Epic somehow prefers the company spend 100 hours each on 5 features (for a total of 500 hours) compared to 200 hours spent on proper architecture and then 30 hours spent each on the 5 features (350 hours).
- 1.0Nice Campus, Complicated SystemSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeMadison, Wisconsin, United StatesJune 24, 2024Pros: Nice campus and nice food you can eat.Cons: A complicated system that makes all projects complicated.
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