Becker's Healthcare October 8, 2024
With more than 14,000 employees and hundreds of thousands of job applications last year alone, Epic has refined the best way to find talent.
“Interviews mean very, very little in our type of work,” Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said Aug. 20 at the company’s Users Group Meeting covered by Becker’s. “We hire mainly by test.”
Ms. Faulkner hired her first programmer the old fashioned way, but when he started he told her he couldn’t do an assignment, she recalled in a Sept. 23 blog post. So she recruited her teenage son, who was then winning programming contests across the state, to develop a test.
“Occasionally, other IT shops asked about the ‘secret of our test’, and our explanation...