Epic Software Engineer interview experience

After a phone screen, I was dropped into multiple timed and untimed sections: math and logic questions, a section that involved learning or using a made-up language, and coding problems presented in an editor where I couldn’t really run or test code. The time pressure was very real—some parts felt like they were moving fast enough that mistakes would cascade.

The questions didn’t feel like they mapped neatly to day-to-day software engineering. I remember getting thrown off by the “logic” style prompts and even a simple-sounding word problem about fruit and prices that was clearly designed to