Salaries are quite good for the game industry, and benefits are some of the best amongst engineering jobs anywhere.
Excessive layers of management. Management lies to you about job performance. Promotions are not given for merit, rather on how friendly you are with the jocks there (the production team). It's just like high school.
Furthermore, their recruiters are some of the most unprofessional and rude people I've dealt with in my career.
Fire every manager, including most of the development managers. Keep the senior engineers and everyone from SE 2 up. Gender equality would be nice. EA bends over backwards for women, since there are so few of them at the company. I've seen completely incompetent women programmers get promoted to SE 3 or Development Director, whereas a male programmer of the same aptitude would be a perpetual SE 1.
The interview process consists of a few one-on-one interviews. The first interview was for around an hour and was completely technical. I was asked to write a few programs, then a few questions on C++, and Threads. After the technical round, I was
Written Test - Technical 3 Technical Rounds of interview 1 Round of HR interview I got feedback after each round of interview, which is appreciable. The whole process took time due to various reasons.
Interviewers asked some very simple programming questions. They don't have sufficient knowledge to understand the projects. Though I answered every question they asked, I was declined the offer. A very bad experience in terms of the quality of interv
The interview process consists of a few one-on-one interviews. The first interview was for around an hour and was completely technical. I was asked to write a few programs, then a few questions on C++, and Threads. After the technical round, I was
Written Test - Technical 3 Technical Rounds of interview 1 Round of HR interview I got feedback after each round of interview, which is appreciable. The whole process took time due to various reasons.
Interviewers asked some very simple programming questions. They don't have sufficient knowledge to understand the projects. Though I answered every question they asked, I was declined the offer. A very bad experience in terms of the quality of interv