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      Electronic Arts

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      Electronic Arts reviews

      3.8

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (3,995 total reviews)
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      Andrew Wilson

      64% approve of CEO

      51% positive business outlook

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      Electronic Arts has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,995 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Electronic Arts employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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      4K reviews
      3.0
      Jun 16, 2008

      The place is fun, but the work isn't.

      Producer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The environment is very informal and the people are very creative, for the most part. They seem to put a lot of resources in to making EA fun.

      Cons

      They don't allow much telecommuting and it's generally considered bad form, as if they don't trust that employees are actually working when home. That seems old fashioned compared to the tech industry as a whole. They also do the minimum to encourage the use of public transportation. Despite all the fun stuff, or maybe because of it, EA has very, very long employee retention. Ordinarily this is a good thing, but it can also create an atmosphere of stagnation when people are set in their ways and slow moving.

      1.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      A good stepping stone

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you're lucky you'll get on a project that will sell a bunch of units. This experience is valuable ... with that experience you can move on to other exciting things at another company. You can probably learn a thing or two from at least some of the people who you work wtih.

      Cons

      Most games we publish just aren't very good. They are derivative and made just to make money. My team has a policy of working weekends for no extra compensation (extra money or additional time off). Most of the designers aren't very good. Scheduling is poor. Stock price is basically flat.

      4.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      A good place to work for where people are trying to learn from their mistakes

      Assistant producer iii
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Despite what has been said, there are some good sides to working at EA. One of the biggest advantages in my opinion is the formal career development plan and the opportunities to learn from EAU. Managers sometimes proactively enrolled me in classes that would help me grow. There are also lots of perks on the campus, such as a fully featured, fully free gym, a great cafeteria, a starbucks on site, oil changing on site, haircut on site, dental on site, etc. Some of the people are also very senior and it helps to have people with lots of experience to learn from.

      Cons

      At the time I was working there, there were two main issues: 1. The quality of the titles. Ship dates and numbers mattered much more than anything else. I understand that as a public company, the bottomline is what matters the most in the short term, but in order to keep your company healthy in the longer run you need to work on your reputation in the market. 2. As a large corporation there is a lot of politics that will get in the way of creativity. Last I heard, they are working on flattening the organization a little bit, though.

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