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Intern at Electronic Arts
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Pittsburgh, PA Dec 2008 – Reviewed Dec 27, 2012
Interview Details – A HR Recruiter came to my college to promote EA and collect applications. We submitted our resumes & cover letters and he selected people for on-campus interviews. 2-3 months later, those of us who passed round 1 got calls from the recruiter to set up phone interviews with the team we'd be interning with. After phone interviews, it took between 2-4 weeks for the recruiter to inform us if we got an internship or not.
Interview Question – What's the most valuable thing I learned at my college's program? This was more difficult because the interviewer was very hard to read. He kept a straight face through most of the interview. Answer Question
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IT Director at Electronic Arts
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Redwood City, CA May 2010 – Reviewed Nov 14, 2012
Interview Details – 15 levels of interview, mostly on past achievements, challenges, and how I had handled them. Responsibilities handled. I felt that my manager was trying to get a consensus built.
Interview Question – nothing difficult. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
No Offer – Interviewed in Philadelphia, PA Jul 2012 – Reviewed Aug 7, 2012
Interview Details – Received phone interview call after applying online on company website.
Interview Question – Given a stack containing values, implement min() operation to find minimum of all the values in O(1) time. Push() and Pop() should run in O(1) as well. View Answers (2)
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Development Director at Electronic Arts
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Los Angeles, CA – Reviewed Aug 2, 2012
Interview Details – Very well managed interview process, actually by far the promptest and most responsive hiring team I have encountered. I had applied online a few months back before EA reached out to me. Luckily I was still in the market. An HR recruiter called me and scheduled a quick interview. At the end of the phone call he asked me if I was available for a phone interview with the hiring manager. He promptly scheduled the next phone interview for the next day. The phone interview with the hiring manager went well and again at the end of the conversation she indicated she wanted me to come in for a face to face. I was invited to go to the EA office in Playa Vista. My face to face consisted of 3 people and 3 hours of interviewing. Overall the experience was pleasant, quick and fun. A week after my interview I got a call from HR asking me for a background check and an offer.
Interview Question – Standard behavioral questions Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Some wiggle room but overall they were pretty set on their offer.
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Software Quality Engineer at Electronic Arts
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Baton Rouge, LA Mar 2011 – Reviewed Jun 22, 2012
Interview Details – I answered an ad in the newspaper, by mailing my resume. I recieved a phone call, a sort of preliminary interview...to discuss the job and the pay. The actual interview was in a group setting, it was actually quite entertaining. EA is not a difficult company to get on with if you are beta testing or handling quality assurance, however they only hire through a staffing agency and only offer one year contracts.
Interview Question – Questions about your background. View Answer
Negotiation Details – Very laid back, the job is a take it or leave it, no negotiation on wage or benefits, etc.
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Operations at Electronic Arts
No Offer – Interviewed in Redwood City, CA May 2012 – Reviewed Jun 21, 2012
Interview Details – Got interviewed and right in the beginning was told that the requisitions has changed. There is something else in my resume he wants to discuss. But to my surprise he was rude and kept his phone on during the interview. then nobody got in touch with me. I called to check back and found out that I am not a good fit. The thing that gets me is that they changed the requisition and nobody knows about it. My recruiter she was very sweet but had no idea about the situation.
Interview Question – The process problems they are having Answer Question
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Lead Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Los Angeles, CA Jan 2008 – Reviewed May 29, 2012
Interview Details – Met with many members of the technical team and studio heads. Different groups of the different studio teams came in groups to ask questions about experience and how I would handle specific problems. They described the project responsibilities and asked about various projects in the past.
Interview Question – Ask to describe how to write a lighting equation in a vertex shader. It had been a while since I had done graphics programming. View Answer
Negotiation Details – Easy to negotiate.
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Director at Electronic Arts
No Offer – Interviewed in Redwood City, CA Dec 2011 – Reviewed Mar 21, 2012
Interview Details – Interview process was normal but the company puts a lot of emphasis on culture and being able fit their culture.
Interview Question – Management style? Answer Question
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Software Quality Engineer at Electronic Arts
No Offer – Interviewed in Redwood City, CA Dec 2011 – Reviewed Mar 9, 2012
Interview Details – Consisted of 3 phone interviews, of which one was behavioral and remaining 2 were technical. I did not like the software quality engineering position but wanted an interview practice, so attended it. I was not offered an onsite interview, since I was not very interested in the position in the first place. The interviewers were cordial and work with you to get the answer they need.
Interview Questions
- What is vtable? Answer Question
- What is the order of constructor calling in C++ during multiple inheritance ? Answer Question
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What is the order of destructor?
What is the difference between semaphore and mutex?
What is deadlock? how can you debug it?
What is livelock?
What is the difference between a map and hashmap?
What is your favorite data structure?
What is the difference between vector and array? Answer Question
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Financial Analyst at Electronic Arts
No Offer – Interviewed in Los Angeles, CA Feb 2012 – Reviewed Mar 5, 2012
Interview Details –
I applied online and heard back a week later from the recruiter. I then had a phone interview with the recruiter the next day and was told the next day that I would be moving forward with a phone interview with the hiring manager. I had a 30 minute phone interview with the hiring manager a few days later and was also told a few hours later that I would be moving forward. A few days later, I went to the office for the final round interview. The final round interview consisted of four in person interviews including the hiring manager. It lasted around 2.5 hours.
The questions asked for all these interviews were pretty basic and mostly consisted of easy fit questions and questions such as rate your Excel skills. I was surprised that none of my interviewers were video game players. Most of them said that they don't really play any video games. There isn't anything wrong with this but for a gaming company, I would expect the employees to be enthusiastic about gaming. The interview process moved quickly although I found the final interview to be disorganized and the interviewers to be rude. Some of the interviewers made me wait 20-30 minutes before they came to interview me. I am giving this interview experience a negative rating as after this interview I have not heard any response even after I followed up with them. I also did not like waiting for 20-30 minutes during the interview rounds which is also why I am giving a negative rating. The process was fast however.
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- Rate your Excel skills? Answer Question
- Why should we hire you? Answer Question
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