Smart Colleagues, Terrible Benefits
Smart Colleagues, Terrible Benefits
You'll work with smart people and will forever have the job security of experience with Epic.
Massive distrust of employees, especially around their COVID response. Benefits are hugely sub-par. Two weeks vacation to start with separate sick time and no work from home when sick (i.e., must either come into the office sick or miss a day) is old-fashioned and not at all competitive.
On the Cogito hosting team specifically, there was so much weekend and after-hours work, with no attempt to reduce it or graduate out of it after so many years of service, that it was really hard to hold down a regular schedule. Hours worked after business hours or on the weekend weren't counted as time and a half or anything, so you would have worked 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Friday through Sunday and still be expected to work a full day on Monday. All in all, a dead-end job without much room for advancement, since you will never move on from customer work.
A massive push for hiring after-hours personnel is critical to retention. Don't rely on new grads for it either, since it's going to make it that much harder to find anyone. Also critical is to have a career trajectory. I was doing the same thing at 6 months as I was at 3 years, which is not desirable when just starting out a career.
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Software Engineer
Phone screening and technical assessment. There are more interviews after that, but I did not get past the assessment round. The technical assessment was pretty cool, but do prep for it (they say not to or that you don’t have to).
Software Developer
Online Assessment with 4 parts: * One 2-minute timed section * One math section * One programming LeetCode section * Learning a fake language section. There are 4 questions on the programming section that you can do in any language you'd li
Systems and Database Management Engineer
The interview was standard, but it made me take a very long examination, which was a waste of time. I suppose that is how they do things, but they should have realized my lack of coding experience and not have offered the test.
Software Engineer
Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesApril 1, 2025Phone screening and technical assessment. There are more interviews after that, but I did not get past the assessment round. The technical assessment was pretty cool, but do prep for it (they say not to or that you don’t have to).
Software Developer
Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesNovember 13, 2024Online Assessment with 4 parts: * One 2-minute timed section * One math section * One programming LeetCode section * Learning a fake language section. There are 4 questions on the programming section that you can do in any language you'd li
Systems and Database Management Engineer
Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesMarch 1, 2014The interview was standard, but it made me take a very long examination, which was a waste of time. I suppose that is how they do things, but they should have realized my lack of coding experience and not have offered the test.
