Lead Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at EPAM Systems with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Lead Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at EPAM Systems overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at EPAM Systems as a Lead Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 27%
Phone interview: 18%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 9%
Personality test: 9%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Bengaluru) in Jun 2024
Interview
It was good. Interviewer had sets of questions and was asking questions like:
Diff between grep ,sed and awk?
644 permission means what?
How to store password in terraform?
How to configure monitoring of 5 instances in cloudwatch?
What metrics do you see in cloud watch? What are the datapoints?
Write data source file?
Why sg is stateless and nacl is stateful?
Diff between alb and nlb
What is swap memory
What is blue green deployment ? How you implement?
Weite docker file?
How you are going to give access to s3 in account b from ec2 in account ?
What routing policy yiu are ysung and why?
Explain cice pipeline
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a python program to list down all the unattached ebs volume
Great step by step process and timely response. They shared the feedback wat went well and their expectations and areas to improve etc… interviewer basically test coding, logical thinking and fundamentals of core skills
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025
Interview
One round, kept asking unnecessary questions, expecting asking questions on theory, they are looking for parrots who can memorize each and every fancy jargon on the internet related to software engineering
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
YAGNI, DRY every fancy jargon on internet Test pyramid, AAA pattern
I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at EPAM Systems in Mar 2025
Interview
I received a call from a recruiter and had an interview scheduled with the lead. However, I'm not sure if they are actually hiring. The interview lasted 1.5 hours, and in the end, he said my approach was unsuitable for their requirements.
He asked basic theoretical questions, like "operator overloading" and constructors in Python, along with a request to write a design pattern, which I did. He also asked me to solve a few Python coding problems. I provided solutions covering all edge cases with O(n) complexity, but instead of appreciating it, he seemed insecure about how I was able to solve them.
Despite answering all his questions and solving the problems correctly, he was not happy. It felt like he was unwilling to accept my approach just because it exceeded his expectations. If I wasn’t suitable for the role, why conduct a 1.5-hour interview in the first place? Interviewers should encourage strong solutions rather than dismissing them.