Electronic Arts

QA Tester Interview Experience

March 1, 2011

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

You will have to briefly write about EA.

Here, they will judge you upon your knowledge of the company and your writing skills, followed by a written test, technical phone interview, and HR round.

Questions were asked on:

Games
Characters' names
Your favorite games
Competitive games
Types of bugs
Test cases

Questions

Asked to write test cases by giving an application followed by a particular string of crashes. As I am not a professional gamer, how will I design them?

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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

Don't be fooled

QA Tester • Former Employee

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Pros: • Casual environment. • Company is understanding if personal issues arise. • Day or Night shift. • Decent for learning some about industry.

Cons: • Barely any chance to move upward. • Friction, some elitism between contractees and actual EA employees. • EA outsources pretty randomly, so you have a chance of losing your job. • Horrid sexism between females getting hired from contractees to EA employees.

Don't be fooled

QA Tester • Former Employee

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Pros: • Casual environment. • Company is understanding if personal issues arise. • Day or Night shift. • Decent for learning some about industry.

Cons: • Barely any chance to move upward. • Friction, some elitism between contractees and actual EA employees. • EA outsources pretty randomly, so you have a chance of losing your job. • Horrid sexism between females getting hired from contractees to EA employees.

Great Culture, Low Pay

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

November 22, 2013

Pros: Great work culture and talented colleagues.

Cons: Pay is very low, and the work is repetitive.

Great Culture, Low Pay

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

November 22, 2013

Pros: Great work culture and talented colleagues.

Cons: Pay is very low, and the work is repetitive.

Manual Testing. Not helpful in testing the field in the long run

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Good fun. I learned a lot about mobile technologies.

Cons: Play games all the time. The technical side of games is unknown. Money is less.

Manual Testing. Not helpful in testing the field in the long run

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Good fun. I learned a lot about mobile technologies.

Cons: Play games all the time. The technical side of games is unknown. Money is less.

Don't be fooled

QA Tester • Former Employee

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Pros: • Casual environment. • Company is understanding if personal issues arise. • Day or Night shift. • Decent for learning some about industry.

Cons: • Barely any chance to move upward. • Friction, some elitism between contractees and actual EA employees. • EA outsources pretty randomly, so you have a chance of losing your job. • Horrid sexism between females getting hired from contractees to EA employees.

3.0
Don't be fooled
QA Tester • Former Employee
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
July 13, 2018
Pros: • Casual environment. • Company is understanding if personal issues arise. • Day or Night shift. • Decent for learning some about industry.
Cons: • Barely any chance to move upward. • Friction, some elitism between contractees and actual EA employees. • EA outsources pretty randomly, so you have a chance of losing your job. • Horrid sexism between females getting hired from contractees to EA employees.

Great Culture, Low Pay

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

November 22, 2013

Pros: Great work culture and talented colleagues.

Cons: Pay is very low, and the work is repetitive.

3.0
Great Culture, Low Pay
QA Tester • Former Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
November 22, 2013
Pros: Great work culture and talented colleagues.
Cons: Pay is very low, and the work is repetitive.

Manual Testing. Not helpful in testing the field in the long run

QA Tester • Former Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Good fun. I learned a lot about mobile technologies.

Cons: Play games all the time. The technical side of games is unknown. Money is less.

3.0
Manual Testing. Not helpful in testing the field in the long run
QA Tester • Former Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
June 25, 2013
Pros: Good fun. I learned a lot about mobile technologies.
Cons: Play games all the time. The technical side of games is unknown. Money is less.

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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