Electronic Arts Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Electronic Arts was a great learning experience."

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Work experience and advancement opportunities"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Use the skills that you have gained and pesonnal experinces"

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Did not have any dislikes"

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"They are very team oriented"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be confident"

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Nothing, it was a great job"

"As a contractor, it is hard for me to gauge the benefits of the company. However, the long hours and lack of pay took a toll on many employees."

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"I learned about the ins and outs of the gaming industry. I found the company to place a lot of focus on the campus feel (cafeteria, gym, game room)."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You must have a strong attention span and be able to test games for up to 14 hrs a day. You will be testing, not simply, playing games all day."

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Overtime was sometimes unbearable."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let employees know when overtime will be required."

"Just another EA employee..."

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Working on games can be really fun and EA has very good benefits package."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you want job security this is a decent place to be but beware of job position offers because most of my coworker buddies I found out that they got demoted from their previous job. Push for the highest position they will give you."

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"EA works you to the bone and your personal life goes out the window when the game needs to be done."

"Pogo.com is casual games meets the Gaming world of EA."

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Gaming innovation. Working with Blue Chip advertisers on media and custom integrations. Pogo offer casual gamers an opportunity to connect with people online and play the games they love: Checkers, Chess etc!!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a great opportunity because the EA involvement but the Pogo.com brand is still strong and has not lost its focus."

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"The Merger with EA. Pogo.com lost its identify. It was nibble Start-up full of character and now it is a different animal."

"Great place to work if you're a full-time employee, but contractors are a little too expendable"

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"relaxed and fun atmosphere most of the time, casual dress, often tried to give what perks they could to employees like rideshare rewards, free decent dinners during forced overtime when budget allowed, tried to involve people in 'the process' more, massage chairs when they worked, great cafeteria, convenient location, opportunity to"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be personable they like people with a personality to lighten the mood when the hours get long and the grind sets in on the job"

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"contractors don't get benefits of any kind, more often than not on some forced overtime schedule upwards of 70 hrs/wk, lower level employees very expendable, daily monotony if atmosphere couldn't stay fun"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"trying to find a way to give contractors who end up doing 70 hr weeks sometimes some sort of tangible bonus or benefit for working those aside from merely overtime pay which is frankly necessary to become a 'livable' wage in Los Angeles"

"very interesting"

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Payments and benefits."

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Closure plant"

"Helpful review allowing for good reflection upon my 6 year career at EA"

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"People & products. I'm a gamer at heart, so it was good to be at a company that excelled in that field."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"None at this time."

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Too much middle management and some of it wasn't necessary. Too many layers in order to advance which made it difficult and demoralizing in trying to do so."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep it simple. Don't over think, don't over analyze. Go with what the source data supports and let those who know how to do, do."

"Horrible job security but they at least treated us well while we were there."

"Great company, however, job security wasn't very good when I worked there"

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"The working environment was very relaxed. Direct management was competent."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be compitent and know what you are talking about."

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"The rumor was that the company had a habit of laying everyone off a large precentage of their work force for 1-2 months every year, not sure if this is still the case or not"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't treat your employees like door mats"

"Interesting position"

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Friendly atmosphere"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No openings"

What don't you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Nothing"

"Stigma against QA Testers is frustrating."

"Great place to get your start and experience a high pace enviroment."

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Fast pace and engaging work place with lots of oppertunity to gain experience"

"Working at EA/EA Partners was the best experience of my career!"