Epic Games·Software Engineer

Epic Games Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

CanadaPosted Jul 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

At the start, they gave me a pre-interview test and told me it would take about four hours, but I didn’t think that was realistic if I wanted to do it well.

They used language like “production ready,” and I remember getting flagged for a bug I’d introduced that traced back to a C library issue. That made it clear they were looking for very high-quality output, not just something that roughly worked.

After that, I had an interview focused on C++ with a person who spent about two hours talking through it with me on video. Then they scheduled a long, five-hour style interview with five different groups, which felt like an onsite equivalent. Before any technical questioning, the recruiter explained that I’d be meeting people they described as

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