Epic Software Engineer interview experience

The test included math with SAT-style questions and even some riddle-like problems. Then it moved into a coding section with multiple LeetCode-style questions.

What made the assessment feel especially awkward was the tooling: the coding work was done in a text editor without a proper integrated development environment, so there was no realistic way to run or test code. That made everything feel more brittle and harder to verify, even when the underlying problems weren’t described as wildly complex.

Across the process, it felt like the assessment carried a huge weight compared to everything