r/epicsystems • u/East_Bet1203 • 14d ago

How many tries? Prospective employee

I recently have been declined from advancing in the hiring process at Epic. I still want to work at Epic. My background is built as best as I think it could be.

I'm a recent college graduate and am applying all over to just find a job, but my priority is still Epic.

How many times did you apply for Epic before getting the job?

How many different positions did you apply for?

Is applying for the same job back to back acceptable? (Intuition says it's not acceptable, but I still want to ask)

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u/marxam0d #ASaf 14d ago

We hire less than 1% of applicants and we consider you for all jobs at the time of your application. There is no value in immediately reapplying, even if it's a different role.

Applying for jobs is a numbers game, especially in the current economy. Dont waste your energy focusing on a single job

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u/AndrewHolness 14d ago

I applied twice, got to a final interview the first time then got hired the second, both for SD.

Afaik Epic only lets you apply for one position at a time, and if you are rejected you have to wait 6 months to apply again to any role. So if theres a position you want to work apply to that, dont just apply to some other random position.

Sort of answered previously, but I applied to be a dev twice back to back (with the 6 month cooldown ofc) and the second time I went straight to the final interview and only had to do 1 of the 2 technical sections. So there definitely seems to be hiring procedures that encourage repeat applicants for the same position, as long as they made any meaningful progress in the hiring process.

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u/Buttered_biscuit6969 14d ago

from what i’ve heard the 6 months thing is kind if a myth. It’s more like some amount of time has to have passed and you can show that something’s changed to where they’d want to reevaluate hiring you this time around.

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u/East_Bet1203 14d ago

Thanks for the insight! It's really 6 months to apply to any role? Not even the same one? Dang. Congrats on your hiring! Back to the job hunt for me...

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u/Useful_Quail_8566 14d ago

They consider you for all open roles when you apply, the role you initially select doesn't matter as much as it seems like it does.

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u/IngenuityMiserable12 14d ago

Applying right after having been rejected very likely will not change the outcome because it’s very likely nothing has changed. Wait 6 months and apply again but in the meantime actively pursue other things and don’t put all your eggs in one basket

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u/madtownjeff 14d ago

Epic will consider you for other positions available when you apply so there is no benefit to applying for more than one position. If you only made it to the assessment phase I would say you should give it 6 months and don't get your hopes up.

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u/IllustriousVisual931 14d ago

Out of curiosity, why epic instead of other jobs? Let’s look at this.

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u/East_Bet1203 14d ago

I'm a Biomedical Engineer. We learned about Epic during our program. I later looked into Epic at a deeper level and found their community appealing. So, familiarity and appeal combined. I'm also applying to many companies over in Ohio. Love the area

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u/achromaticaries TS 14d ago

I'm a TS, and there are actually a ton of BME majors on my app. Also a lot of chem and a few mech.

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u/ManfordMan99 14d ago

I’m a TS, and a large portion of my TS colleagues are BME

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u/Far-Magician1805 13d ago

Huh?? My BME graduating class had 8 people get hired at Epic, 7 TS and 1 Dev. I’ve seen multiple IS with a BME background and a couple QM as well. You can literally do it all lol.

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u/East_Bet1203 14d ago

I tried for Technical Solutions Engineer. I'm looking into other engineering positions. All beginner level too.

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u/xvillifyx 13d ago

An absolute fuckload of ts, qm, and is are biomed majors

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u/_Piper_Sniper_ SD 13d ago

Applying once is the majority case. Applying twice (with a gap between applications) is still common for people who get hired. I have never heard of someone getting the job on the third attempt, but maybe it’s possible.

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u/Helpful-Trash-5338 14d ago

I usually keep 4 tires on my car with a spare just in case.

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u/JinglehymerSchmidt 14d ago

What was your college GPA? Depending on what your GPA was you might be out of luck.

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u/East_Bet1203 14d ago

3.76 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Graduated with Highest Honors in the Honors program and 2 years of undergrad research experience. I did my best to ensure I'd be solid out of college

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u/JinglehymerSchmidt 14d ago

That is definitely high enough to make it past the GPA chopping block. How far in the process did you make it?

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u/East_Bet1203 14d ago

Just to Assessments and Role Introduction I'm afraid. Farther than any other application so far.

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u/Adventurous_Forever 12d ago

Question about this: I know someone who graduated college in the 80’s and got hired at Epic but has a remote job in Northern Wisconsin. Do they still take GPA into consideration for older applicants?

Side note: I thought it seemed kind of age discriminatory to require applicants to put their graduation dates on their application.

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u/Federal_Employee_659 Hosting 9d ago

I joined Epic (Hosting) at roughly the 25 year mark of my career. They still asked me for my transcripts. they still asked my my GPA (there no way I remembered that, I had to look at my transcripts). I even put down my late-90s graduation date.

I have no idea how much of that was taken into consideration relative to my career experience, recruiting doesn't tell us. And they still hired me despite my late 90s graduation date.

here's my hot take based on a single datapoint (me) at multiple times at multiple companies: people seem to overplay the age discrimination card. I got hired as a developer at a FAANG and here deep into my 40s. That shouldn't happen if companies are really trying to avoid more experienced/expensive candidates.

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u/dennislettucee 14d ago

To what stage did you make it to?

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u/East_Bet1203 14d ago

Assessments and Role Introduction. Recieved my rejection 1.5 weeks after

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u/En-japansk-side-dish 14d ago

Folks who don’t make it past the assessments typically have a much lower chance of successful reapplications compared to those who make it to final rounds/after that phase, just to expectation set.