Electronic Arts

During my time at EA, the company had many ups and downs. Some good bullet points while working on a live service game with them would be:

• Brilliant in-studio management.
• Plenty of employee benefits.
• Relaxed working environment.
• Great on-site facilities, for example, we had an on-site gym that any employee could use for free.
• Arranged company mini-bus to get employees to work who couldn't drive.
• The testing plans ran like clockwork and were easy to digest.
• Employee sick pay and bereavement leave.

There were also many things to dislike at the company, especially as time on contracts was coming close to end dates.

• Lack of clarity on contract renewals, well the end date was weeks away.
• Virtually zero upper management interaction; everything was whispers passed to our line managers.
• Long periods of downtime.
• Lack of company progression for people wanting to become permanent employees.
• QA felt very isolated at EA from the rest of the company.
• Mass layoffs during my time there also led to overall group morale being exceedingly low, wondering if our studio would be next (it was).