Electronic Arts

QA Analyst Interview Experience

August 1, 2014

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The interview process is very lengthy and involves many people. Experience is a must, and the people interviewing will know if you are full of it.

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Questions

I was asked about my interaction with developers, writers, and programmers.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Electronic Arts QA Analyst role.

Success Rate

67%

Pass Rate

Electronic Arts's interview process for their QA Analyst roles is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral22%

Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Electronic Arts's QA Analyst interview process.

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

Fun Office, Low Pay

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Pros: They build a friendly and playful environment at the office, with free fruits and coffee everyday, and parties. Free beer at the end of the shift for everybody if it's Friday the 13th! Discounts in shopping centers. Good communication between the various test teams from within the project.

Cons: The salaries for QA startup testers are not very attractive.

Fun Office, Low Pay

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Pros: They build a friendly and playful environment at the office, with free fruits and coffee everyday, and parties. Free beer at the end of the shift for everybody if it's Friday the 13th! Discounts in shopping centers. Good communication between the various test teams from within the project.

Cons: The salaries for QA startup testers are not very attractive.

Contractor Positions at EA are treated like garbage

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

February 13, 2016

Pros: Cool community of people. Lots of experience for the industry. Great way to network.

Cons: Horrible pay. No benefits. They dangle "becoming EA" so you stay.

Contractor Positions at EA are treated like garbage

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

February 13, 2016

Pros: Cool community of people. Lots of experience for the industry. Great way to network.

Cons: Horrible pay. No benefits. They dangle "becoming EA" so you stay.

Great career start, but expect lots of overtime

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Pros: It's a great eye-opener to how corporate game development works. Fantastic bonuses and pay.

Cons: Lots of overtime when it's not really needed. Managers against people being introverts, constant pressure to prefer 110 percent and burn out.

Great career start, but expect lots of overtime

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Pros: It's a great eye-opener to how corporate game development works. Fantastic bonuses and pay.

Cons: Lots of overtime when it's not really needed. Managers against people being introverts, constant pressure to prefer 110 percent and burn out.

Fun Office, Low Pay

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Pros: They build a friendly and playful environment at the office, with free fruits and coffee everyday, and parties. Free beer at the end of the shift for everybody if it's Friday the 13th! Discounts in shopping centers. Good communication between the various test teams from within the project.

Cons: The salaries for QA startup testers are not very attractive.

4.0
Fun Office, Low Pay
QA Analyst • Former Employee
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
March 3, 2018
Pros: They build a friendly and playful environment at the office, with free fruits and coffee everyday, and parties. Free beer at the end of the shift for everybody if it's Friday the 13th! Discounts in shopping centers. Good communication between the various test teams from within the project.
Cons: The salaries for QA startup testers are not very attractive.

Contractor Positions at EA are treated like garbage

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

February 13, 2016

Pros: Cool community of people. Lots of experience for the industry. Great way to network.

Cons: Horrible pay. No benefits. They dangle "becoming EA" so you stay.

2.0
Contractor Positions at EA are treated like garbage
QA Analyst • Former Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
February 13, 2016
Pros: Cool community of people. Lots of experience for the industry. Great way to network.
Cons: Horrible pay. No benefits. They dangle "becoming EA" so you stay.

Great career start, but expect lots of overtime

QA Analyst • Former Employee

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Pros: It's a great eye-opener to how corporate game development works. Fantastic bonuses and pay.

Cons: Lots of overtime when it's not really needed. Managers against people being introverts, constant pressure to prefer 110 percent and burn out.

3.0
Great career start, but expect lots of overtime
QA Analyst • Former Employee
Galway, County Galway, Ireland
July 24, 2023
Pros: It's a great eye-opener to how corporate game development works. Fantastic bonuses and pay.
Cons: Lots of overtime when it's not really needed. Managers against people being introverts, constant pressure to prefer 110 percent and burn out.

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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