Working at Electronic Arts in Maitland, FL: 13 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Maitland, FL Area

"I worked with EA Tiburon for a year as a Dev-Ops engineer. I've found Tiburon's Development and Release Engineering team to be filled with expert individuals that make the environment inviting but the team's position within the company being pulled in many directions by essentially every development team while not having enough resources to truly support the requests."

"Great company, although very hard to move up. Very competitive and the people who get promoted are usually ones with the best managers."

"Slap-dash work, long hours, high turnover. Need to be young."

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Lots of nice treats, comfortable, casual environment. Seems to be typical computer game company environment"

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

"EA deserves it's popular reputation, for both good and bad things. It's much less structured than your average business environment."

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

"Must do highly complex work at high speed. Don't care about quality, just speed. If you don't meet their bug count metrics, you're out. Long hours, high stress."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More focus on quality, less on rework. Don't lay people off during the peak period. Stop burning people out."

"EA was the most fun I've had working. Making games people play is very rewarding."

"Working for EA Tiburon was a great experience."

"EA Tiburon QA opinion"

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Great people"

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

"Enjoy it - they're a great company 85% of the time."

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

"Repetitive projects"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take more risks, don't be afraid to iterate over two years as opposed to 9 months"

"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."

"Good place to work, if you're single."

What do you like about working at Electronic Arts?

"Fun, casual working environment."

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

"Don't listen to assurances of we're working on improving the number of hours worked...they never change in this regard."

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

"Long hours."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Determine software requirements more adequately to prevent overworked employees."

"Nice people, but very demanding work. High turnover and burnout."

"Eat and sleep at work."