Electronic Arts

A long-timer at EA Hyderabad, I worked in a couple of teams. I gave good feedback about EA on Glassdoor in the past but had to change that now.

Good things are quite temporary.

• No strict policies about dress.
• Average pay.
• A pro-manager and non-engineer company.

I have been working at EA for quite some time.

I am stuck at EA because of the work done here, like load testing and scripts for testing, which is of no use.

Layoffs are the only result for one's loyalty and work at EA.

Engineers with incompetency and lacking skills to do good work, but who are very good in politics or pushing work onto others, are retained.

Worst and most useless HRs ever. HRs of the CDS, CTO group are the worst to interact with and will do anything for the managers, even when the team complains about the manager.

All useless surveys like the team health survey. No actions are taken for it, but HR and managers harass the team for giving feedback.

All kinds of drama by HRs, like focus groups, just to show their reporting managers, but no actions are taken against anyone based on the results of it.

Totally unethical and incompetent senior test managers and test managers from a shut-down telecom company in the CTO group, Hyderabad.

Senior test managers and test managers steal others' credit for some work and frame them, while HRs help the managers with that.

Lack of technical skills and technical people at all levels in Hyderabad teams.

Pro-North Indians, as all the HRs and managers are from North India.

Worst experience ever while working with a female test manager and test managers in the CTO or user experience group.

Policies of WFH and flexible timing are only applicable to North Indians and people who help test managers in their politics. While the people who get the work done have to follow strict timing and spend hours in the office.

Worst senior management in the CTO group, Hyderabad.

A company is good if it has good leaders and engineers. The EA Hyderabad was once good but became worst after hiring incompetent and really bad ex-Motorola managers.

A team recognized for delivering became useless after that.

Hire good leaders and engineers, and lose the bad test managers.