Epic Games·Backend Engineer

Epic Games Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I first met a recruiter over Zoom, and the timing was already off—she was about ten minutes late, with an explanation that a prior meeting had run long.

The hiring-manager call was also late, and the whole session felt like the interviewer wasn’t fully engaged. During a 30-minute conversation, I felt like every answer I gave was questioned, not in a curious way, but in a way that kept pulling me away from finishing my thoughts.

I tried to recover by asking follow-up questions near the end, and I managed to get a few in, but the call ended quickly after that. There wasn’t any clear discussion of what would happen next, which made the whole experience feel uncertain and oddly disconnected from normal hiring transparency.

Later on, I had

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