Electronic Arts

• Good bonuses and benefits.
• Easy to access office, close to subway and other means of public transportation.
• Modern tech.
• Very good salaries in some departments compared with other companies.
• Many internal events.
• Ability to work with diverse teams from around the world.

High discrepancies between how departments are treated, especially bad for the testing department.

Old management with discriminatory practices.

Crunch periods.

Low wage raises after you are hired, and these can only occur once per year.

Many of the contractors are treated very poorly, from extremely low wages (even lower than McDonald's) to the employment form (temporary, and you can work for years as a contractor if you do not reach certain ranks, you won't be internalized).

Recruitment department is overpaid compared to the local market, but it treats candidates poorly and has low interest in actually doing its job.

Hiring in some departments is simply done if the manager likes you or not during the interview, and technical skills are not actually tested. I recommended a candidate, and the manager simply told her that he liked one of the other candidates already and that they also studied at the same college as him. Similar situations happened to other candidates recommended by other colleagues.

Local law requires a company to hire a contractor after 3 years of work. In order to avoid this, contractors from the testing department are required to resign and then be rehired on the same day. This gap in the law helps the company avoid any legal sanctions, but even if I am a regular full-time employee, I cannot agree with this treatment of contractor colleagues.

Pay more attention to the recruitment process, as it's not really professional and some of the hiring managers are even discriminating against candidates.

Try to give more opportunities to contractors in the testing department to join the company. Many of them have been working for several years and have become demotivated due to this.

This should not be tied to becoming a Project Manager or a Senior Analyst (Associate Quality Designer).