Electronic Arts

Game Developer Interview Experience

November 1, 2020

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

First online and written. Then, if we select you, we will call you and ask you to attend an interview. If they like you, then they'll recruit you. That's all that you have to know. It's basic for all interviews taken.

Questions

The ask, the way you are developing your portfolio.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Electronic Arts Game Developer role.

Success Rate

25%

Pass Rate

Electronic Arts's interview process for their Game Developer roles is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Electronic Arts's Game Developer interview process.

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

Creative Freedom, Slow Comms

Game Developer • Former Employee

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

October 3, 2025

Pros: Collaborative team with lots of creative freedom. Leadership is approachable and open to feedback. Good work-life balance with hybrid flexibility.

Cons: Career progression is a bit unclear. Some cross-department communication can be slow.

Creative Freedom, Slow Comms

Game Developer • Former Employee

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

October 3, 2025

Pros: Collaborative team with lots of creative freedom. Leadership is approachable and open to feedback. Good work-life balance with hybrid flexibility.

Cons: Career progression is a bit unclear. Some cross-department communication can be slow.

This is my experience

Game Developer • Current Employee

Pros: Well, that was a pretty good experience. They treat me well, and all my co-workers encouraged me when I first entered that company.

Cons: Many hours at work and short breaks.

This is my experience

Game Developer • Current Employee

Pros: Well, that was a pretty good experience. They treat me well, and all my co-workers encouraged me when I first entered that company.

Cons: Many hours at work and short breaks.

Great place to work at

Game Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Lots of experience, good work-life balance.

Cons: It's run fairly conservatively compared to most other game companies; things move slower.

Great place to work at

Game Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Lots of experience, good work-life balance.

Cons: It's run fairly conservatively compared to most other game companies; things move slower.

Creative Freedom, Slow Comms

Game Developer • Former Employee

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

October 3, 2025

Pros: Collaborative team with lots of creative freedom. Leadership is approachable and open to feedback. Good work-life balance with hybrid flexibility.

Cons: Career progression is a bit unclear. Some cross-department communication can be slow.

4.0
Creative Freedom, Slow Comms
Game Developer • Former Employee
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
October 3, 2025
Pros: Collaborative team with lots of creative freedom. Leadership is approachable and open to feedback. Good work-life balance with hybrid flexibility.
Cons: Career progression is a bit unclear. Some cross-department communication can be slow.

This is my experience

Game Developer • Current Employee

Pros: Well, that was a pretty good experience. They treat me well, and all my co-workers encouraged me when I first entered that company.

Cons: Many hours at work and short breaks.

4.0
This is my experience
Game Developer • Current Employee
May 12, 2024
Pros: Well, that was a pretty good experience. They treat me well, and all my co-workers encouraged me when I first entered that company.
Cons: Many hours at work and short breaks.

Great place to work at

Game Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Lots of experience, good work-life balance.

Cons: It's run fairly conservatively compared to most other game companies; things move slower.

5.0
Great place to work at
Game Developer • Former Employee
June 28, 2022
Pros: Lots of experience, good work-life balance.
Cons: It's run fairly conservatively compared to most other game companies; things move slower.

Electronic Arts Interview Questions

Relative Ranks

Given an array of scores, assign medals (Gold, Silver, Bronze) to the top three scores and rank numbers to the rest. Return the rank list as an array of strings.

Is Subsequence

Determine if one string is a subsequence of another. That is, check if you can form the first string by deleting characters from the second string without changing the order of the remaining characters.

StringsTwo PointersDynamic Programming

Wiggle Subsequence

Find the length of the longest subsequence within a given sequence such that the differences between adjacent numbers alternate between positive and negative.

ArraysDynamic ProgrammingGreedy Algorithms

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