EPAM Systems Data Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Lima, Lima RegionPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started in an unexpected way, with a process that felt slow and a lot of acronyms thrown around.

The interview was conducted in English with short switches to Spanish, and the communication itself didn’t feel stable because my internet connection was bad.

Eventually, they told me they wouldn’t continue due to a language barrier issue. What felt confusing was that they seemed highly surprised, and my guess was that they also couldn’t reconcile it with my current compensation expectations.

There wasn’t much of a real technical ending—this was cut off early—so the outcome wasn’t about fit for the role in the way the other interviews I’d seen were. My reflection was that the combination of

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