Electronic Arts

I loved the project and how a usual day looked.

It was easy to communicate both with the testers and with the dev team.

It was easy and pleasant to start my IT career in the company.

Many cons, so not enough reasons to stay in the long term. Even if I enjoyed the project and the team, I felt in a survivor state because I had the worst salary of my life, no private medical insurance, and no extra benefits. The requirement to even have the interview was to own a gaming laptop that I didn't even use for the project itself.

The onboarding was far from professional. The HR team kept asking me for the same documents because they were not well-organized. My first week was chaotic. There was no documentation for newbies, and after I became the first bug reporter within the team in less than 6 months, I still didn't receive a better offer or a permanent contract. I gave honest and diplomatic feedback, but nothing changed.

As an employer, EA shows its contractors that they do not have high value, even if they deliver results. The HR team from Romania is not professional as it should be.

Employee or contractor, give respectful salaries and benefits to your employees. Invest in the onboarding and train your managers to actually understand the problems of their colleagues and to act accordingly.