Electronic Arts

Software Quality Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2011

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Consisted of three phone interviews, of which one was behavioral and the remaining two were technical.

I did not like the software quality engineering position but wanted interview practice, so I attended it.

I was not offered an onsite interview, since I was not very interested in the position in the first place.

The interviewers were cordial and worked with you to get the answer they needed.

Questions

What is vtable?

What is the order of constructor calling in C++ during multiple inheritance?

What is the order of destructor?

What is the difference between a semaphore and a mutex?

What is deadlock? How can you debug it?

What is livelock?

What is the difference between a map and a hashmap?

What is your favorite data structure?

What is the difference between a vector and an array?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Electronic Arts Software Quality Engineer role.

Success Rate

50%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

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

Electronic Arts Work Experiences

You learn a lot

Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Pros: I worked in the FIFA server team. The office looks great, composed team, professional environment, and you get to learn the basics of quality development.

Cons: Most of my colleagues are kinda homophobic, and some are even bullies, including some superiors.

You learn a lot

Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Pros: I worked in the FIFA server team. The office looks great, composed team, professional environment, and you get to learn the basics of quality development.

Cons: Most of my colleagues are kinda homophobic, and some are even bullies, including some superiors.

Challenging, Stressful, Much Learning

Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: challenging, competence, lots of learning, work under pressure

Cons: No time for family, stressful.

Challenging, Stressful, Much Learning

Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: challenging, competence, lots of learning, work under pressure

Cons: No time for family, stressful.

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

November 13, 2025

Pros: Great people. Interesting work. Competitive pay for the area.

Cons: Higher-level management is pretty terrible. The USD vs CAD pay difference is ridiculous.

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

November 13, 2025

Pros: Great people. Interesting work. Competitive pay for the area.

Cons: Higher-level management is pretty terrible. The USD vs CAD pay difference is ridiculous.

You learn a lot

Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Pros: I worked in the FIFA server team. The office looks great, composed team, professional environment, and you get to learn the basics of quality development.

Cons: Most of my colleagues are kinda homophobic, and some are even bullies, including some superiors.

4.0
You learn a lot
Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee
Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
July 24, 2015
Pros: I worked in the FIFA server team. The office looks great, composed team, professional environment, and you get to learn the basics of quality development.
Cons: Most of my colleagues are kinda homophobic, and some are even bullies, including some superiors.

Challenging, Stressful, Much Learning

Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: challenging, competence, lots of learning, work under pressure

Cons: No time for family, stressful.

4.0
Challenging, Stressful, Much Learning
Software Quality Engineer • Current Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
April 16, 2012
Pros: challenging, competence, lots of learning, work under pressure
Cons: No time for family, stressful.

Good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

November 13, 2025

Pros: Great people. Interesting work. Competitive pay for the area.

Cons: Higher-level management is pretty terrible. The USD vs CAD pay difference is ridiculous.

4.0
Good place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 13, 2025
Pros: Great people. Interesting work. Competitive pay for the area.
Cons: Higher-level management is pretty terrible. The USD vs CAD pay difference is ridiculous.

Electronic Arts Interview Questions

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.

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 Programming

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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