Just traveling to new places on immersion trips.
Worst experience I've ever had in my whole life regarding all sides: life balance, people you work with, work environment, atmosphere. It was just bad.
You'll be losing your skills over time until you'd be unemployable because you have no market value from an "Epic" background.
It's been more than 5 years. They say we'll move from VB to C#, but still, more than 70% of the company codes in VB. Imagine in 2017, I was coding in VB. The last time I coded in VB before Epic was in primary school.
Company culture is very bad. I've seen people getting fired because they didn't like their team leaders' way of leading or talking. They were fired because they escalated to HR!
Everyone has a private office, which makes it very difficult to ramp up fast. Everyone pretends to be busy, and it'll be so difficult to get someone to help you.
Everyone has some weird ego. My team leader was acting like he's the godfather, and even my mentor, who has just one more year of experience than me, once yelled at me, "Don't talk while I'm talking!". This happens to many new hires, which is why I'm mentioning it.
People never talk to each other, even outside the company. Everyone looks sad inside!
No life balance at all, and still, you learn nothing.
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,