Epic Software Engineer interview experience

The assessment ended up taking almost four hours for me, and the whole time felt like a test of stamina as much as problem-solving.

If I made it through that hurdle, the structure was set up to move into final interviews on a separate day, so the assessment was effectively the gatekeeper. For me, the overall process felt too long and too generic for the position, and it leaned heavily on broad test categories rather than something that felt tightly connected to day-to-day software work.

I didn’t get an offer. The biggest thing I carried away was that the process demanded a lot of time up