Electronic Arts

QA Tester Interview Experience

April 1, 2010

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Randstad or some other consultancy will recruit for EA. The first round will be written, followed by technical and HR.

Questions

When you will be asked to join the organization, at 9000 per month.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 47 interview experiences for the Electronic Arts QA Tester role.

Success Rate

89%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive72%

Neutral23%

Negative4%

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

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

Fun Breaks, Awful Management

QA Tester • Current Employee

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Pros: - Great people (testers only) - Free fruit - Free tea - Relaxation area (video games) - Relatively fun atmosphere

Cons: - Bad salary. - A lot of promotions based on backstabbing and ass kissery. - Management has no idea what it is doing. - Repetitive and boring. - Some team leads treat you like scum or a slave (canceling your vacation "just because they can" one day before you're supposed to take it). - No recognition for personal efforts (Team lead is always solely responsible for project successes, even though he may have just sat around looking at Facebook all project long). - No medical insurance. - No bonuses. - Have to work overtime in order to earn a decent salary, but you completely turn lifeless if you do this.

Fun Breaks, Awful Management

QA Tester • Current Employee

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Pros: - Great people (testers only) - Free fruit - Free tea - Relaxation area (video games) - Relatively fun atmosphere

Cons: - Bad salary. - A lot of promotions based on backstabbing and ass kissery. - Management has no idea what it is doing. - Repetitive and boring. - Some team leads treat you like scum or a slave (canceling your vacation "just because they can" one day before you're supposed to take it). - No recognition for personal efforts (Team lead is always solely responsible for project successes, even though he may have just sat around looking at Facebook all project long). - No medical insurance. - No bonuses. - Have to work overtime in order to earn a decent salary, but you completely turn lifeless if you do this.

Great Opportunities, Contract Only

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

September 10, 2019

Pros: A great company with lots of opportunities to explore and great exposure to people's talent.

Cons: QA testers will remain on contract base, with no option to work as full-time employees.

Great Opportunities, Contract Only

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

September 10, 2019

Pros: A great company with lots of opportunities to explore and great exposure to people's talent.

Cons: QA testers will remain on contract base, with no option to work as full-time employees.

Enjoyable work, but no progress in career or compensation

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

December 11, 2009

Pros: Work is play. Play is work. Anyone who is very much interested in gaming will be interested to work at EA Mobile.

Cons: Electronic Arts is financially not doing well, hence, it may not pay its employees as per their expectations or aspirations.

Enjoyable work, but no progress in career or compensation

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

December 11, 2009

Pros: Work is play. Play is work. Anyone who is very much interested in gaming will be interested to work at EA Mobile.

Cons: Electronic Arts is financially not doing well, hence, it may not pay its employees as per their expectations or aspirations.

Fun Breaks, Awful Management

QA Tester • Current Employee

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Pros: - Great people (testers only) - Free fruit - Free tea - Relaxation area (video games) - Relatively fun atmosphere

Cons: - Bad salary. - A lot of promotions based on backstabbing and ass kissery. - Management has no idea what it is doing. - Repetitive and boring. - Some team leads treat you like scum or a slave (canceling your vacation "just because they can" one day before you're supposed to take it). - No recognition for personal efforts (Team lead is always solely responsible for project successes, even though he may have just sat around looking at Facebook all project long). - No medical insurance. - No bonuses. - Have to work overtime in order to earn a decent salary, but you completely turn lifeless if you do this.

1.0
Fun Breaks, Awful Management
QA Tester • Current Employee
Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
March 12, 2014
Pros: - Great people (testers only) - Free fruit - Free tea - Relaxation area (video games) - Relatively fun atmosphere
Cons: - Bad salary. - A lot of promotions based on backstabbing and ass kissery. - Management has no idea what it is doing. - Repetitive and boring. - Some team leads treat you like scum or a slave (canceling your vacation "just because they can" one day before you're supposed to take it). - No recognition for personal efforts (Team lead is always solely responsible for project successes, even though he may have just sat around looking at Facebook all project long). - No medical insurance. - No bonuses. - Have to work overtime in order to earn a decent salary, but you completely turn lifeless if you do this.

Great Opportunities, Contract Only

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

September 10, 2019

Pros: A great company with lots of opportunities to explore and great exposure to people's talent.

Cons: QA testers will remain on contract base, with no option to work as full-time employees.

4.0
Great Opportunities, Contract Only
QA Tester • Former Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
September 10, 2019
Pros: A great company with lots of opportunities to explore and great exposure to people's talent.
Cons: QA testers will remain on contract base, with no option to work as full-time employees.

Enjoyable work, but no progress in career or compensation

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

December 11, 2009

Pros: Work is play. Play is work. Anyone who is very much interested in gaming will be interested to work at EA Mobile.

Cons: Electronic Arts is financially not doing well, hence, it may not pay its employees as per their expectations or aspirations.

2.0
Enjoyable work, but no progress in career or compensation
QA Tester • Former Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
December 11, 2009
Pros: Work is play. Play is work. Anyone who is very much interested in gaming will be interested to work at EA Mobile.
Cons: Electronic Arts is financially not doing well, hence, it may not pay its employees as per their expectations or aspirations.

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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