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by bongodongobob 299 days ago
Their hiring is insane too. Years ago I applied for a Sys admin I position. After 3 rounds of interviews, they gave me a test to take. Except it was something you'd give a senior dev. They specced out a fake language, super esoteric too, it was like a combination of brainfuck and assembly, and asked me to solve problems with it, and debug code written in it. I could have toughed my way through it, but I was so dissatisfied with how much of my time they'd already wasted that I decided I didn't want to work there.
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That sounds like a filter selecting for people without any self esteem but mad programming chops. Good you passed.
I remember my friend was looking at applying Epic. They asked him to send his SAT scores. We had a good chuckle about it.

He had finished undergrad 5+ years prior and had continuous industry experience.

You sure it was a fake language and not just ANSI MUMPS?