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Software Engineer III
Current Employee
Has worked at Electronic Arts for 6 years
August 6, 2014
Hyderābād, Telangana
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good work-life balance, annual Christmas vacation, and gaming areas in the office.

Fun at work. Freedom of expressing ideas.

Cons

The company has strange policies on expenses. They will save printer toner while millions of euros are squandered in purchasing the wrong software and wrong contracts.

Then again, a new software/service contract will be bought. This cycle goes on every few years.

Even on projects, they ask to avoid travel for meetings. If you travel, you must pay from your own pocket and then get reimbursed.

HR policies in India are somewhere between terrible and pathetic. They are unable to provide even basic medical cover.

Recently, there has been huge attrition in middle management, thankfully.

Advice to Management

See where your millions of dollars are being spent.

Put a tab on it or at least see what returns all this spending has brought to us.

Keep a close watch on the contract partners. They are billing us more than they are working. If they are billing for 8 people, make sure 8 people are working for us.

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