How's the interview loop at Epic (swe)? From what I understand they have a take home test plus a round of interviews. How difficult do they get, anything to prepare?
Varies from team to team and the specific role/level. The take home exercise I give should be doable in a couple hours if you are experienced in the language. Then you’ll do tech screen where we review your solution and grill you on mistakes, scaling, additions, etc. We also do a systems design round where you are given vague requirements and ask to design a system to solve the problem. We are looking for a baseline of your skills and strong/weak areas to gauge where we may need to train and support you. Beyond that it’ll be 2-3 rounds of behavioral questions to see how you work and respond to different situations.
Thanks, so I guess the interview panel is with the hiring team and not just randoms? So that the system design is actually related to the field you're applying for
The interview panel generally will include people from outside of the team. Not random as I’ve selected them as the hiring manager. Usually people from other teams that we work with on a regular basis. For my team the systems design question will be tangentially related to something we do.
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Take home test can likely be found with an online search. Then there are many rounds of interviews: expect 3-5 total rounds of panel interviews with other SWEs, TDs, and Leads, as well as production. Know your C++, and be able to talk in detail about systems you have built, problems you faced, etc.
So mostly (domain specific) system design kind of questions?
They seem to prefer concrete examples of domain-relevant systems/features. They like to dig into the nitty gritty implementation details. It is an engineering-first company.