Graphics Engineer @ EA, on an iterative title - Software Engineer Electronic Arts Employee Review

4.0
May 18, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Electronic Arts is a bohemeth of a company, and there are a lot of opportunities within the company. If you get tired of working the long hours and high-stress deadlines on a game team, the central groups that support the game teams by building common tech and tools are there. Knowledge sharing is a big part of the draw of the company - the mailing lists across the company are an excelent way to get in contact with and brainstorm with people from a plethora of other game teams. Chances are, someone else has encountered the issue you're wrangling, and you can get feedback about a handful of different approaches you could take to solve it on your team.

Cons

Most people maintain a decent work life balance, but there's still presusre from management to work longer hours than should be neccesary if things were planned for well in adavance. Stupid things that have been ignored for months suddenly become "high priority" requiring late hours or coming in on a saturday to get them completed. The artist also aren't very technically inclined. While skilled in the art authoring tools, they overall seem to lack understanding of the consequences of the assets they put in game. It can be very frustrating working with them, having to remind them over and over to check their work, and fix problems generated when they forget to do so.

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