Electronic Arts

Software Developer In Test Interview Experience

June 1, 2015

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Phone interview, about half an hour long.

Started with personal questions about past experiences with test development. Then went into technical details about C#.

Ended with a coding question through Google Docs.

Overall, I didn't think it was too hard and did well. Heard back in a week to say that they were looking for someone with more experience.

Questions

Write a function to find all numbers that are squares of another number from -5000 to 5000.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Electronic Arts's Software Developer In Test interview process.

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

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, it is a good company, and you can learn a lot

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

January 24, 2023

Pros: Good pay and lots of vacation.

Cons: A big org with a lot of bureaucracy.

Overall, it is a good company, and you can learn a lot

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

January 24, 2023

Pros: Good pay and lots of vacation.

Cons: A big org with a lot of bureaucracy.

Video Games, Sports, and Crunch

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Orlando, Florida, United States

Pros: EA Tiburon is a great place to work if you love video games and sports. I have a lot of friends who are software engineers who just do a job because it's a job. I go to work excited (most days) to work on something I actually care about and am passionate about. There's also no shortage of opportunity for advancement, recognition, and promotion at EA Tiburon. If you have good ideas and initiative, it doesn't take very long to get recognized and rewarded at Tiburon.

Cons: In a word: crunch. I've been in the game industry for over ten years, and even though things are generally better now than they were when I started, and there are genuine improvements being made every year, crunch still sucks. And since Tiburon makes mostly sports titles on annual release cycles, crunch happens every year. Expect to pretty much give up a few months of your family and social life every year.

Video Games, Sports, and Crunch

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Orlando, Florida, United States

Pros: EA Tiburon is a great place to work if you love video games and sports. I have a lot of friends who are software engineers who just do a job because it's a job. I go to work excited (most days) to work on something I actually care about and am passionate about. There's also no shortage of opportunity for advancement, recognition, and promotion at EA Tiburon. If you have good ideas and initiative, it doesn't take very long to get recognized and rewarded at Tiburon.

Cons: In a word: crunch. I've been in the game industry for over ten years, and even though things are generally better now than they were when I started, and there are genuine improvements being made every year, crunch still sucks. And since Tiburon makes mostly sports titles on annual release cycles, crunch happens every year. Expect to pretty much give up a few months of your family and social life every year.

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, it is a good company, and you can learn a lot

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

January 24, 2023

Pros: Good pay and lots of vacation.

Cons: A big org with a lot of bureaucracy.

4.0
Overall, it is a good company, and you can learn a lot
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
January 24, 2023
Pros: Good pay and lots of vacation.
Cons: A big org with a lot of bureaucracy.

Video Games, Sports, and Crunch

Software Engineer III • Current Employee

Orlando, Florida, United States

Pros: EA Tiburon is a great place to work if you love video games and sports. I have a lot of friends who are software engineers who just do a job because it's a job. I go to work excited (most days) to work on something I actually care about and am passionate about. There's also no shortage of opportunity for advancement, recognition, and promotion at EA Tiburon. If you have good ideas and initiative, it doesn't take very long to get recognized and rewarded at Tiburon.

Cons: In a word: crunch. I've been in the game industry for over ten years, and even though things are generally better now than they were when I started, and there are genuine improvements being made every year, crunch still sucks. And since Tiburon makes mostly sports titles on annual release cycles, crunch happens every year. Expect to pretty much give up a few months of your family and social life every year.

4.0
Video Games, Sports, and Crunch
Software Engineer III • Current Employee
Orlando, Florida, United States
March 23, 2010
Pros: EA Tiburon is a great place to work if you love video games and sports. I have a lot of friends who are software engineers who just do a job because it's a job. I go to work excited (most days) to work on something I actually care about and am passionate about. There's also no shortage of opportunity for advancement, recognition, and promotion at EA Tiburon. If you have good ideas and initiative, it doesn't take very long to get recognized and rewarded at Tiburon.
Cons: In a word: crunch. I've been in the game industry for over ten years, and even though things are generally better now than they were when I started, and there are genuine improvements being made every year, crunch still sucks. And since Tiburon makes mostly sports titles on annual release cycles, crunch happens every year. Expect to pretty much give up a few months of your family and social life every year.

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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