Electronic Arts

Gameplay Programmer Interview Experience

May 1, 2022

Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The recruiter called me, then I had a coding test, and I went to the final. Everything was done in three weeks, so it was a quite fast interview process. I loved interviewing here, and they were really awesome during the interview.

Questions

I cannot tell because I signed an NDA.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Electronic Arts Gameplay Programmer role.

Success Rate

25%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral25%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Electronic Arts's Gameplay Programmer interview process.

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

Got rid of me before I was even employed for a year to avoid providing health benefits

Game Tester • Former Employee

Marina del Rey, California, United States

January 30, 2013

Pros: Testing video games wasn't an overly difficult job, and the people I worked with were great. Management was exceptional.

Cons: The company was more worried about "incurring more costs related to employment," i.e., being forced to provide health benefits to hourly employees, than it was about the timing of 'layoffs'.

Got rid of me before I was even employed for a year to avoid providing health benefits

Game Tester • Former Employee

Marina del Rey, California, United States

January 30, 2013

Pros: Testing video games wasn't an overly difficult job, and the people I worked with were great. Management was exceptional.

Cons: The company was more worried about "incurring more costs related to employment," i.e., being forced to provide health benefits to hourly employees, than it was about the timing of 'layoffs'.

Ea Passion, Low Pay

QV Tester • Former Employee

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Pros: If you're passionate about EA games,

Cons: Low salary and no part-time option.

Ea Passion, Low Pay

QV Tester • Former Employee

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Pros: If you're passionate about EA games,

Cons: Low salary and no part-time option.

Great place for experience or long-term

Associate Quality Designer • Current Employee

Pros: Great healthcare, decent starting salary, and amazing perks.

Cons: Hiring for new roles is less from within. Compensation is not by merit but more arbitrary across the board.

Great place for experience or long-term

Associate Quality Designer • Current Employee

Pros: Great healthcare, decent starting salary, and amazing perks.

Cons: Hiring for new roles is less from within. Compensation is not by merit but more arbitrary across the board.

Got rid of me before I was even employed for a year to avoid providing health benefits

Game Tester • Former Employee

Marina del Rey, California, United States

January 30, 2013

Pros: Testing video games wasn't an overly difficult job, and the people I worked with were great. Management was exceptional.

Cons: The company was more worried about "incurring more costs related to employment," i.e., being forced to provide health benefits to hourly employees, than it was about the timing of 'layoffs'.

2.0
Got rid of me before I was even employed for a year to avoid providing health benefits
Game Tester • Former Employee
Marina del Rey, California, United States
January 30, 2013
Pros: Testing video games wasn't an overly difficult job, and the people I worked with were great. Management was exceptional.
Cons: The company was more worried about "incurring more costs related to employment," i.e., being forced to provide health benefits to hourly employees, than it was about the timing of 'layoffs'.

Ea Passion, Low Pay

QV Tester • Former Employee

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Pros: If you're passionate about EA games,

Cons: Low salary and no part-time option.

2.0
Ea Passion, Low Pay
QV Tester • Former Employee
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
June 27, 2020
Pros: If you're passionate about EA games,
Cons: Low salary and no part-time option.

Great place for experience or long-term

Associate Quality Designer • Current Employee

Pros: Great healthcare, decent starting salary, and amazing perks.

Cons: Hiring for new roles is less from within. Compensation is not by merit but more arbitrary across the board.

5.0
Great place for experience or long-term
Associate Quality Designer • Current Employee
June 15, 2021
Pros: Great healthcare, decent starting salary, and amazing perks.
Cons: Hiring for new roles is less from within. Compensation is not by merit but more arbitrary across the board.

Electronic Arts Interview Questions

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 ProgrammingBinary SearchGreedy Algorithms

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.

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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