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Updated Feb 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took a day)
The HR representative came to do an on-campus interview. Mostly questioned about my background, resume, and interests. I didn't have a great background in software and maybe my apprehension showed, so I didn't get a follow up. I wasn't sure that I wanted to work there as it is purely software.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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QA Tester at Electronic Arts
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in Hyderabad (India) (took 2 days)
You have 3 stages of interview:
Round 1: Play a mobile game on your device and report bugs on it.
Round 2: Since you are joining a leading gaming company, you need to be an avid gamer. They ask you questions on games, ranging from the story line to the characters name, your favorite games, competitive games from other studios, etc.
Round 3: If you qualify in the above two rounds, you have the final HR round where you discuss the salary.
That's it. You are in.
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Negotiation Details
No Negotiations. You shall be offered 10k straight. If you accept well and good. Else they don't bother. There are many people out there who can play games and report bugs.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
Posted Jan 22, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took a day)
It is a 30 minutes on campus interview. The interviewer is pretty nice and asked some basic background questions and went through my resume. Then he asked me to write a little program to solve a problem. The question is not hard. However I got a little nervous and didn't come up with the solution immediately.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Financial Analyst at Electronic Arts
Posted Dec 10, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Austin, TX (took a day)
Very nice reimbursed me for my hotel.
Culture seemed to be very laid back. However I wasn't prepared as well as I should have been.
They asked me a couple of questions from financial statements and wanted me to tell them the total affect.
I didn't understand the question and therefore was not able to answer.
No job offer!
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Art Manager at Electronic Arts
Posted Nov 23, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Irvine, CA (took a day)
Very professional and buttoned- up recruiting and interview process.
Contacted them through their website. After working with their recruiter, had an initial 1 hour phone screen with the hiring manager. Then flown in for an in- person interview which consisted of 4 group/ panel interviews with the functional leads team, production leads team, and then the art team (broken into two since it was so large)- with lunch and an hour tour of the campus.
Was contacted the following day by the recruiter who said the team really liked me and give them a few days to round up feedback and decide next steps. I'd brought up some salary and location issues (suspected the salary would be significantly lower than what I was making, and not a fan of Irvine) prior to the interviews and the recruiter gave me some tentative numbers. Things seemed like they were moving forward as I eventually spoke with the head of global hiring about additional benefits. I told them I'd need a few weeks to mull over the potential relocation. When I finally got back to them, they apparently were in the process of interviewing additional candidates. Finally heard back 4 months later that they extended an offer to someone else but that it had been a "difficult decision."
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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UI Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
Posted Sep 20, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took 2+ weeks)
A recruiter called and mentioned that she saw that I had a skill set that they are seeking. She asked if I could send her a portfolio of my work and if I would be available for a phone interview the following Monday. She was very expeditious in arranging the interview. The interview was with a senior engineer who was extremely nice. Following the initial interview, the recruiter requested that I proceed on to a more technical interview with a systems engineer. That interview was also quickly scheduled. The technical interview went fairly smoothly. The interviewer asked only moderately tough questions but didn't seem too impressed with my responses. Later that day, I got another call from the recruiter requesting an on-site interview. The on-site consisted of a series of 1 on 1 interviews from team members and management. Some of the 1:1 were relaxed, others were more intense with the interviewer asking me to write routines on a whiteboard to solve specific problems. The next day, the cruiter called again and said that they want to give me a "homework assignment" for the weekend. At about 3:30 that day (Friday) I received an email with the assignment details. The recruiter "checked in" over the weekend and asked if I was going to be abl,e to complete the homework by Monday. I mentioned that I had additional prep work for another interview and asked if Tuesday would suffice. I sent in the homework on Tuesday and received another call from the recruiter on Weds. stating that they would like to make me an offer. She called on Thurs and provided me with the offer details (verbally) and I received the official hard copy offer on Friday.
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Reason for Declining
I had a competing offer that was much more attractive
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
Posted Sep 18, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 4 days)
First I had phone interview which was moderately tough and then I went to EA campus in CA , face to face. I had a total of 4-5 technical rounds which were moderately tough . Totally concentrated on Core java, Front end .
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
Posted Sep 4, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2009 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took 4+ weeks)
I cant remember if I applied or they proactively sought me out. EIther way, an initial phone interview went well, and they then flew me to Vancouver Canada for a series of interviews with members from different teams. I was enthusiastic about the position, but I was nervous as I really wanted it, and made a few faux pas in my answers, that I tried to recover from, but I could tell they were not impressed.
Some of the personal questions I thought I handled very well, but they had some specific technical questions which were more in the realm of things I had done years ago, and frankly I was unable to give good answers. Looking back now I should have prepared better on the OO side of things, as well as taking some basic pseudo coding tests, but I didn't, and if I was them I would not have offered me the job either.
In fairness the reason they gave is that I was not right for the role they were looking for. I think I may have gotten a similar role there, but my current employer was generous, and I think they reckoned I was too expensive given the fact that not all my answers were great.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Data Analyst at Electronic Arts
Posted Sep 4, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took a day)
I applied for the job on line and got the phone interview about a week later. The first phone interview is with the HR, it lasts about 20-30 mininutes. He asked about my work experience and how good are my excel and sql skills.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Electronic Arts
Posted Jun 4, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Vancouver, BC (Canada) (took a day)
they are really picky for what they want, even they are very kind and professional for the whole interview process. and you 'd better have a lot of related knowlege for those works which related to your position.
Sometimes you need make sure you remember a long command without google it
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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