High salary; innovative and influential product; smart co-workers; job is often challenging; some degree of creative control; some degree of variety; most interpersonal interaction is polite and reasonable (although tepid at times).
Sometimes long hours are expected. The company is fairly authoritarian. The raise and bonus process is opaque. Little gratitude and support are exchanged. Many inexperienced people are present. The job is sometimes monotonous. The job is sometimes isolating. Both the company and its product are too focused on "metrics".
Try to value individual employees a little more instead of just assigning them to boxes. I think it would improve the culture a lot.
I had to take a lot of tests and had a phone interview where I talked about my past projects. The tests were hours long and took a long time.
30-minute phone screen, then an OA around 4 hours long. The OA had mental math, but also a few LeetCode-type problems. They were not very difficult if you studied common patterns and implementation.
One single virtual interview after a multihour OA. The interview was 4 hours long, but only ~2 hours was actual interview stuff. The rest was two presentations from different people about life at Epic. The 2 hours of interview included a case study,
I had to take a lot of tests and had a phone interview where I talked about my past projects. The tests were hours long and took a long time.
30-minute phone screen, then an OA around 4 hours long. The OA had mental math, but also a few LeetCode-type problems. They were not very difficult if you studied common patterns and implementation.
One single virtual interview after a multihour OA. The interview was 4 hours long, but only ~2 hours was actual interview stuff. The rest was two presentations from different people about life at Epic. The 2 hours of interview included a case study,