Being salaried isn't a benefit if you always work over 40 hours
Being salaried isn't a benefit if you always work over 40 hours
Able to get involved in projects outside of your team. Flexibility for when to come in every day and leave every day. It's nice to work an extra hour Monday and Tuesday and leave two hours early on Friday if you have to travel anywhere.
Work-life balance can depend a lot on your team and your TL. Some TLs bend over backwards to make unrealistic deadlines work, and others tell you to protect your free time. If it can't be done in 40 hours, then it won't be done.
Working weekends can be depressingly common on some teams, especially late in release. Working 50-hour weeks to finish up doesn't mean you can work any less than 40 the following week to avoid burnout on most teams. Being salaried just means no overtime, not that you can ever work less than 40 without catching insane amounts of flak.
Don't make promises to customers that will take an unrealistic and nigh impossible amount of manpower to finish in the given deadlines.
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I applied through my college's career board and was asked to take a personality test pretty much right away. Maybe a week later, I was contacted for a phone interview. After that, I was asked to fly out to Madison for an interview. Epic covered all
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I took an online personality test and gave them my resume, unofficial transcript, and possibly a cover letter. Within a week, I was contacted for a short phone interview, and then was invited to an on-site interview. Overall, I think it was a pretty
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Phone interview, including a description of the interviewer's job at Epic (~45 min). Online testing, including a skills and personality test (~2 hours). On-site interviews and tour (~5 hours, including paid-for lunch).
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Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesApril 1, 2013I applied through my college's career board and was asked to take a personality test pretty much right away. Maybe a week later, I was contacted for a phone interview. After that, I was asked to fly out to Madison for an interview. Epic covered all
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Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesJanuary 1, 2013I took an online personality test and gave them my resume, unofficial transcript, and possibly a cover letter. Within a week, I was contacted for a short phone interview, and then was invited to an on-site interview. Overall, I think it was a pretty
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Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesOctober 1, 2017Phone interview, including a description of the interviewer's job at Epic (~45 min). Online testing, including a skills and personality test (~2 hours). On-site interviews and tour (~5 hours, including paid-for lunch).
