Painfully transitioning from outdated technology
Painfully transitioning from outdated technology
- High salary, especially in Madison, Wisconsin, where living costs are low.
- Decent 401K, healthcare, vacation, sick leave, and other opportunities.
- Work-life balance is manageable. Working overtime was not frequent in my team, and even when it happened, the hours were not that late (7 P.M. latest).
- Beautiful campus.
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Main product is still based on ancient technology (Visual Basic 6.0, released in 1998). If you are assigned to be a VB developer, too bad. None of the skills you learned will be transferable.
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They are trying to transition to a web frontend and C# backend. However, the process is painful. Currently they just inserted an IE browser inside their legacy VB framework as a temporary solution, which is annoying to work with and causes many bugs. I don't see the "real" transition to pure web frontend happening anytime soon.
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Since their software is safety-critical (used in hospitals), there are many rounds of code review and QA. You will spend 80%+ time dealing with red tape, and 20%- time writing code.
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The winter in Madison, Wisconsin is long and brutal. Around 6 months per year of close-to-zero Fahrenheit. Think about this before you go.
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I submitted my resume through Handshake, completed an online assessment, and then had a brief phone interview. The phone interview was mostly behavioral, with some questions about topics on my resume.
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Phone behavioral and online assessment followed by a Zoom interview with live coding and system design questions. The first parts were done at the same time, and the next round was dependent on those results.
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Received an initial phone interview with a developer at Epic. It was a standard kind of screening phone call to verify credentials and go through the job requirements and such. Then came a skills assessment, which consisted of four parts: programmin
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Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesNovember 18, 2025I submitted my resume through Handshake, completed an online assessment, and then had a brief phone interview. The phone interview was mostly behavioral, with some questions about topics on my resume.
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Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesOctober 19, 2025Phone behavioral and online assessment followed by a Zoom interview with live coding and system design questions. The first parts were done at the same time, and the next round was dependent on those results.
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Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesSeptember 12, 2025Received an initial phone interview with a developer at Epic. It was a standard kind of screening phone call to verify credentials and go through the job requirements and such. Then came a skills assessment, which consisted of four parts: programmin
