Epic Games·Software Engineer

Epic Games Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Negative

CanadaPosted Feb 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiting started with a LinkedIn outreach, and the first thing I noticed was that they didn’t explain what I was actually applying for until we spoke on the phone.

After that call, I was given a take-home test they said would take a few hours, which felt misleading; I ended up suspecting it would really require a full day. The test itself didn’t feel like it assessed the real intricacies of the role so much as it leaned on trickier questions that could be searched for, and I didn’t want to rely on that.

After I submitted code, they ran it through an automated “killer” style test to see whether edge cases were covered. If the automated pass didn’t happen, that was basically it. When I reached the hiring-manager stage, I didn’t get many chances to

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