Electronic Arts Reviews in Vancouver, BC Area
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Nov 21, 2009
2009-11-21 13:43 PST
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Pros
Great Salary and good benefits. Great communication and technology sharing between studios (at the production-level), thanks to efforts of EA's Knowledge-Sharing and Central Tech groups. Good work-life balance.
Cons
Senior Management seems at a loss for how to move forward. We seem to be making one major course correction after another and each time, new companies are purchased and hundreds of existing employees are laid off. Case in point: EA's announcement that it would be laying off 1500 employees came on the same day that they we announced we were spending 300 million dollars to buy Playfish, a company making Facebook games. Among those laid off were employees of studios we'd only acquired a year or two ago. As a result there is a general atmosphere among the employees that they might be let go at any time with little warning, which has been horrible for morale.
Advice to Senior Management
Put some thought into the long-term roadmap, communicate it to the studios and then make it a reality. Put more effort into anticipating the direction the industry is moving in and stop trying to react to every tiny change in the marketplace.
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Associate Software Engineer in Vancouver, BC (Canada):
“Chaotic, but Fullfilling”
Sep 18, 2009
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Software Engineer II in Burnaby, BC (Canada):
“EA was a good place to work ”
Aug 28, 2009
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Associate Producer in Burnaby, BC (Canada):
“Top heavy at the mgmt & sr mgmt levels with low caliber leaders”
Jul 26, 2009
2 found helpful
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Anonymous in Burnaby, BC (Canada):
“Review”
May 31, 2009
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Software Engineer I in Vancouver, BC (Canada):
“Great place for a video game enthusiast.”
Apr 7, 2009
1 found helpful
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Software Engineer III in Burnaby, BC (Canada):
“Could be a lot better.”
Mar 28, 2009
2 found helpful
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Technical Director in Vancouver, BC (Canada):
“Another cog in the machine.”
Mar 27, 2009
2 found helpful
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Software Engineer I in Burnaby, BC (Canada):
“Could be so much better.”
Mar 22, 2009
3 found helpful
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Associate Software Engineer in Burnaby, BC (Canada):
“Not a bad place to work, but better work-life balance needs to be established”
Mar 13, 2009
