Rendering Engineer Interview Experience - Burnaby, Canada
November 19, 2025
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
Initial briefing + 3 round interview.
The initial briefing was around 30 minutes and was mostly formalities, intended to inform me of how the rest of the interview would go.
Each of the following rounds was about an hour, where the interviewers would ask increasingly difficult questions to find out where my knowledge would stop.
Questions
Familiarity with some concepts related to C++, Vulkan, and rendering in general.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Electronic Arts Rendering Engineer role in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Success Rate
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Pass Rate
Electronic Arts's interview process for their Rendering Engineer roles in Burnaby, British Columbia is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Electronic Arts's Rendering Engineer interview process in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Electronic Arts Work Experiences
4.0
Too much bureaucracy
Rendering Engineer • Current Employee
September 6, 2023
Pros: Huge amount of resources.
Mostly good teammates.
Up-to-date tech.
Cons: Huge teams all working on the same codebase.
Always trying to do more with less.
Constant grinding, slow development.
4.0
Overall, a good experience with lots to learn from your peers
Software Engineer III • Current Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
February 18, 2012
Pros: Decent pay, means to do great games.
Cons: Poor schedule management on game teams, not enough investment in high-end technology to see further.
1.0
Too much OT, no work-life balance
Software Engineer III • Former Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
November 10, 2010
Pros: - Working on a video game, guess what? It's fun.
- Lots of stuff to learn. One year at EA is like three years in other companies. They make you work hard, but at the same time, you learn a lot.
- Decent pay compared to other people on a yearly basis, but hourly, most people will be paid more than you do.
Cons: - Poor management; many managers don't know how to manage. Many who do know how to manage either were laid off or left for another company.
- Poor work-life balance; they make you work like a dog and don't pay you for overtime. Because overtime is not paid, managers don't care about proper task estimates. When a project is behind, they will just force people to work overtime. If you don't want to work overtime, they will lay you off or use other pressure to make you work overtime.
On many teams, the typical way you are asked to work on the weekend is like this: "You will be given next Sunday off, but to get that Sunday off, this week, you must work 12 hours/day and work on both Saturday and Sunday this week."
- Raises and bonuses are poor; raises are next to zero or below inflation.
- A lot of politics; people who suck up to higher managers get promoted. Many people who worked hard get laid off, while some people who play WoW all day get kept and stay on the job.
- If you get your stuff done fast because you use your brain, you are rewarded with overtime to help other people. On some teams, if there are bugs that need to be fixed, nobody on the team can go home until all bugs are fixed.
- Outsourcing to India or other countries is not because it's cheaper and makes sense; it's because there's a budget for outsourcing, and the team needs to spend that money on outsourcing.
- 4.0Too much bureaucracyRendering Engineer • Current EmployeeSeptember 6, 2023Pros: Huge amount of resources. Mostly good teammates. Up-to-date tech.Cons: Huge teams all working on the same codebase. Always trying to do more with less. Constant grinding, slow development.
- 4.0Overall, a good experience with lots to learn from your peersSoftware Engineer III • Current EmployeeBurnaby, British Columbia, CanadaFebruary 18, 2012Pros: Decent pay, means to do great games.Cons: Poor schedule management on game teams, not enough investment in high-end technology to see further.
- 1.0Too much OT, no work-life balanceSoftware Engineer III • Former EmployeeBurnaby, British Columbia, CanadaNovember 10, 2010Pros: - Working on a video game, guess what? It's fun. - Lots of stuff to learn. One year at EA is like three years in other companies. They make you work hard, but at the same time, you learn a lot. - Decent pay compared to other people on a yearly basis, but hourly, most people will be paid more than you do.Cons: - Poor management; many managers don't know how to manage. Many who do know how to manage either were laid off or left for another company. - Poor work-life balance; they make you work like a dog and don't pay you for overtime. Because overtime is not paid, managers don't care about proper task estimates. When a project is behind, they will just force people to work overtime. If you don't want to work overtime, they will lay you off or use other pressure to make you work overtime. On many teams, the typical way you are asked to work on the weekend is like this: "You will be given next Sunday off, but to get that Sunday off, this week, you must work 12 hours/day and work on both Saturday and Sunday this week." - Raises and bonuses are poor; raises are next to zero or below inflation. - A lot of politics; people who suck up to higher managers get promoted. Many people who worked hard get laid off, while some people who play WoW all day get kept and stay on the job. - If you get your stuff done fast because you use your brain, you are rewarded with overtime to help other people. On some teams, if there are bugs that need to be fixed, nobody on the team can go home until all bugs are fixed. - Outsourcing to India or other countries is not because it's cheaper and makes sense; it's because there's a budget for outsourcing, and the team needs to spend that money on outsourcing.
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