Electronic Arts

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 1, 2015

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Online test followed by an in-person interview of multiple stages after several days.

Except for the last round, all the rounds were technical in nature.

All four rounds were conducted in a single day.

Had a very good experience overall.

Measuring more your logical approach than technology.

Questions

Given scenarios for masking the patterns in a given text.

Handling multiple databases.

Reversing a linked list.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Electronic Arts Senior Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

10%

Pass Rate

Electronic Arts's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral25%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Electronic Arts's Senior Software Engineer interview process.

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

Business over tech or product. Good effort to be a good employer

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Redwood City, California, United States

September 12, 2019

Pros: Fun games industry environment with the stability and perks of a large corp. People are generally nice and cooperative, at least at the IC level.

Cons: Studios run the show, and central tech can be oblivious to game dev or the game business.

Business over tech or product. Good effort to be a good employer

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Redwood City, California, United States

September 12, 2019

Pros: Fun games industry environment with the stability and perks of a large corp. People are generally nice and cooperative, at least at the IC level.

Cons: Studios run the show, and central tech can be oblivious to game dev or the game business.

Experiences really depend on the team

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

October 14, 2021

Pros: Very stable franchises. A lot of inter-studio communications that leads to a lot of learning experiences.

Cons: How you are treated really depends on which team you are on.

Experiences really depend on the team

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

October 14, 2021

Pros: Very stable franchises. A lot of inter-studio communications that leads to a lot of learning experiences.

Cons: How you are treated really depends on which team you are on.

Overall, a great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: The managers and the company treat the employees very well. The pay is decent, in line with the market. The office closes for a week between Christmas and New Year's, so it's like getting an additional week of paid vacation. The work is mostly interesting.

Cons: The product and project managers sometimes have too much confidence in the judgment and competence of the team leads, and some very poor decisions get executed by those team leads. Sometimes deadlines are missed, or you have to work late to fix problems resulting from such bad team lead decisions.

Overall, a great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: The managers and the company treat the employees very well. The pay is decent, in line with the market. The office closes for a week between Christmas and New Year's, so it's like getting an additional week of paid vacation. The work is mostly interesting.

Cons: The product and project managers sometimes have too much confidence in the judgment and competence of the team leads, and some very poor decisions get executed by those team leads. Sometimes deadlines are missed, or you have to work late to fix problems resulting from such bad team lead decisions.

Business over tech or product. Good effort to be a good employer

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Redwood City, California, United States

September 12, 2019

Pros: Fun games industry environment with the stability and perks of a large corp. People are generally nice and cooperative, at least at the IC level.

Cons: Studios run the show, and central tech can be oblivious to game dev or the game business.

3.0
Business over tech or product. Good effort to be a good employer
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Redwood City, California, United States
September 12, 2019
Pros: Fun games industry environment with the stability and perks of a large corp. People are generally nice and cooperative, at least at the IC level.
Cons: Studios run the show, and central tech can be oblivious to game dev or the game business.

Experiences really depend on the team

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

October 14, 2021

Pros: Very stable franchises. A lot of inter-studio communications that leads to a lot of learning experiences.

Cons: How you are treated really depends on which team you are on.

5.0
Experiences really depend on the team
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
October 14, 2021
Pros: Very stable franchises. A lot of inter-studio communications that leads to a lot of learning experiences.
Cons: How you are treated really depends on which team you are on.

Overall, a great place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: The managers and the company treat the employees very well. The pay is decent, in line with the market. The office closes for a week between Christmas and New Year's, so it's like getting an additional week of paid vacation. The work is mostly interesting.

Cons: The product and project managers sometimes have too much confidence in the judgment and competence of the team leads, and some very poor decisions get executed by those team leads. Sometimes deadlines are missed, or you have to work late to fix problems resulting from such bad team lead decisions.

5.0
Overall, a great place to work
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
May 23, 2014
Pros: The managers and the company treat the employees very well. The pay is decent, in line with the market. The office closes for a week between Christmas and New Year's, so it's like getting an additional week of paid vacation. The work is mostly interesting.
Cons: The product and project managers sometimes have too much confidence in the judgment and competence of the team leads, and some very poor decisions get executed by those team leads. Sometimes deadlines are missed, or you have to work late to fix problems resulting from such bad team lead decisions.

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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