Electronic Arts

• Exposure to multiple technologies. • Great CEO bonuses (~$2K pandemic bonus). • The company helps you all the time in making your job easier by providing accessories and all. • Good developers with a supportive culture. • Good if you are interested in learning some part of all technologies (Jack of all, Master of None). • Good hikes and stock bonuses. • Good if you want to attend a lot of meetings, speak about something you worked on, and call it a day. • Flexible timings.

• Lots of maintenance projects in the Player Experience team. • Very few Invest projects. • Very little Engineering done. You won't find developers here stressing their minds to solve problems because the problems aren’t that hard. Optimization and System Design are out of scope. • Work can be mundane and monotonous. • Unnecessary meetings with US teams for long hours, which can impact developer productivity a lot. • Scrum masters running the company like a service-based company. The more Jira tickets you close, the more work logs you add, the better you are in their minds. • No technical owners in India. • Lots of contractors/scrum masters who try to run the job like in a service-based company. • Growth is very slow. • Managers don’t have a good idea of what a person is interested in and capable of. You will be assigned to a random team which has a requirement. • Definitely not a place if you want to work in a team where stuff is built from scratch. • India is mostly considered a support location with very few developers getting to meaningful development work. • Not a place if you are planning to stay for years. You will be bored within a year doing the same work again and again.

• Try to bring technical ownership to India. • Decrease unnecessary meetings. • Start behaving like a product-based company. • Think of engineering and infrastructure instead of adding patches and making the job done.