Electronic Arts reviews

The politics in the QA department, and EA overall, are rampant and toxic. Promotions are given not on merit but on how connected you are to people in power. There are several QA Directors who constantly and blatantly play the sucking up game and have gotten quickly promoted as a result while the rest of QA just shakes their heads. The leader of the QA organization has the biggest ego and believes that any idea he has is the best idea. He then shifting the goals and objectives constantly as he works the entire QA org solely to make himself look good to upper management. The entire QA org below the senior management level is disillusioned as a result. Too much time is spent on useless organizational initiatives driven by an internal Ops org that has no clue what game development is about. As a result, focus on the actual game project is too low a priority.

Leadership teams are beyond incompetent (from a web engineering perspective) Constant "re-organizations" for upper management (to justify their roles with the company) waste so much time and effort that could be spent on building amazing things. NO vision for the products Every product town hall turns into a social justice seminar when it should be spent advising on company health and what new things are going to be built. The web team at EA has become run by people who have no business being in their roles. It takes years to get any kind of project out the door and once they do, the leadership team tries to distance themselves from the failures and pawn off on the engineers and lower product teams. They then go into "re-organization and re-branding" mode in an attempt to save face and then spend another couple years trying to release a product that is neither innovative or even relevant in the scope of the industry and longer. Instead of talking about how the fix the lack of vision on the product, every town hall devolves into complaining about social justice issues like what EA is doing about gender fluid profiles. Management spends too much time catering to things that don't matter and providing lip service to exciting things that never materialize. Pay is not the best for the job you are doing. They rely on their name to attract people, but the better engineers always end up leaving for something better.