Electronic Arts

• Nice campus.
• Weekly barbecue on campus, but not free.
• Nice goodies and welcome gifts for new interns.
• Free shuttles from/to San Carlos Station.

• Little to entirely no attention for interns.

• My biggest challenge was to stay awake! I'm not kidding; I had to come up with my own tasks and methods to stay awake. I fell asleep several times because of the unprecedented boredom. Insistence to get real and more assignments did not prove useful.

• Very slow-paced and boring environment.

To be fair, the other interns seemed like they had a good time, but they were young college kids and it seemed like they were only in it for the fun. It was all about silly and immature pranks. I would hear constant loud laughter and noises when they were playing in the office – it literally felt like high school. However, I personally was extremely disappointed. I thought I was getting access to one of the most advanced software development practices in the industry, given the company's name, but I was instead thrown into a corner cubicle (the cube area was large and comfortable, though) and had little to no human interaction on most days. Complaining about the lack of assignments was not taken seriously.

Do not think of interns as just young kids who are there to entertain and be entertained.

Also, an advice to EA Academy or EA University Relations: Instead of organizing all these campus events for interns, encourage managers to give interns real and challenging tasks that are part of what you do. This way, they can get back to their university feeling proud of the contributions they made and become more attached to the company.