Electronic Arts

Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 1, 2014

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied through university for an intern position at EA. Was contacted quickly and had an interview within a week or two. It was a face-to-face interview with a full-time developer and HR. I was asked some general experience questions and questions about my project, followed by a few technical questions. The next interview would have been on campus with a team if this interview had been a success.

Questions

General questions about my past experience/projects.

Technical: How to find the size of a linked list in one pass?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 104 interview experiences for the Electronic Arts Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

40%

Pass Rate

Electronic Arts's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral25%

Negative18%

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

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

Big Company, Hard Interview

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Very big company. Lot to learn and grow.

Cons: Very hard questions and answers in the interview.

Big Company, Hard Interview

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Very big company. Lot to learn and grow.

Cons: Very hard questions and answers in the interview.

It sucked there

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Redwood City, California, United States

Pros: Hmm, working on games should be fun in theory. Sometimes you can even play the games they develop for free. Of course, if you have the time to play anything, which they make sure you don't.

Cons: Working on games never was so miserable. The location is not great either. You either commute a lot or pay a lot to live there.

It sucked there

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Redwood City, California, United States

Pros: Hmm, working on games should be fun in theory. Sometimes you can even play the games they develop for free. Of course, if you have the time to play anything, which they make sure you don't.

Cons: Working on games never was so miserable. The location is not great either. You either commute a lot or pay a lot to live there.

It was good, I worked on an NHL team as an intern

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Free games, freedom, a nice facility, and a lot of events. There was a summer ending party that was fun. You can rent stuff from its library.

Cons: In the middle of nowhere, people are too busy there. They need to work on the weekends at times (overtime). The food sucked.

It was good, I worked on an NHL team as an intern

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Free games, freedom, a nice facility, and a lot of events. There was a summer ending party that was fun. You can rent stuff from its library.

Cons: In the middle of nowhere, people are too busy there. They need to work on the weekends at times (overtime). The food sucked.

Big Company, Hard Interview

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Very big company. Lot to learn and grow.

Cons: Very hard questions and answers in the interview.

4.0
Big Company, Hard Interview
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
April 4, 2013
Pros: Very big company. Lot to learn and grow.
Cons: Very hard questions and answers in the interview.

It sucked there

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Redwood City, California, United States

Pros: Hmm, working on games should be fun in theory. Sometimes you can even play the games they develop for free. Of course, if you have the time to play anything, which they make sure you don't.

Cons: Working on games never was so miserable. The location is not great either. You either commute a lot or pay a lot to live there.

2.0
It sucked there
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Redwood City, California, United States
June 11, 2008
Pros: Hmm, working on games should be fun in theory. Sometimes you can even play the games they develop for free. Of course, if you have the time to play anything, which they make sure you don't.
Cons: Working on games never was so miserable. The location is not great either. You either commute a lot or pay a lot to live there.

It was good, I worked on an NHL team as an intern

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: Free games, freedom, a nice facility, and a lot of events. There was a summer ending party that was fun. You can rent stuff from its library.

Cons: In the middle of nowhere, people are too busy there. They need to work on the weekends at times (overtime). The food sucked.

4.0
It was good, I worked on an NHL team as an intern
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 4, 2010
Pros: Free games, freedom, a nice facility, and a lot of events. There was a summer ending party that was fun. You can rent stuff from its library.
Cons: In the middle of nowhere, people are too busy there. They need to work on the weekends at times (overtime). The food sucked.

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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