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      Associate Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 9, 2009
      Anonymous employee
      Burnaby, BC
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Electronic Arts (Burnaby, BC) in Apr 2008

      Interview

      I landed the phone interview at the Massive Technology Show in Vancouver, BC. It was not a recruiting event but I decided to try my luck there, as I wasn't getting many interviews as a new grad. I approached a few booths but EA was about the only booth that was nice enough to talk to someone who was seeking a job. The phone interview was scheduled about a week after the event. It was an HR interview consisted of mostly questions regarding to educational backgrounds and work experiences. The HR personel also asked a couple "technical" questions that required a definitive answer. The questions were along the lines of "What is the big O for quick sort?", "What is a friend class?" After the phone interview, I had the impression that they needed people very urgently because we skipped through the usual technical phone interview and he scheduled a in-person interview for me right away. The in-person interview was held about a week after the initial phone screen. It lasted for about 2.5 hours. I had two interviewers in the first hours and they drilled me on the usual technical stuff, algorithm and general knowledge-based questions. That was the only technical interviews that I had and honestly those quesions were very easy because any relatively complex question would require at least an hour to solve and I was asked a dozen quesions during that one hour. The second hour was an interview with the hiring manager and he asked mostly about behavioral questions. I spoke mostly the truth about myself and BS'ed a bit here and there and told him what he wanted to hear. The questions were like "how do you handle conflicts with your co-worker/professor/fellow student?" and "tell me about your strengths". EA was a gaming company and big on sports games, so I tried very hard to tell him throughout the interview how big of a gaming/sports fan I was. I truly liked gaming and sports so I was very excited and talked very passionately about the games that I enjoyed and I think the manager really liked that. The last part of the interview was with a recruiter who was basically asking me what my expectation of salary was. When he asked me that question, I thought I already had the job but later found out it was just a normal practice for EAC recruiters to ask that question. I didn't get a tour of the company like a couple of my friends from college did so I thought I done failed. I found out later that the tour doesn't mean anything because I've had friends that had the tour and didn't get the job. EAC had one of the most impressive campus I've ever seen (I now work at Redmond and it's not nearly as nice as EAC in terms of facilities and decorations). EAC had a lot of designer furnitures and stuff. After the interview, I emailed and thanked the first recruiter whom I got the initial phone screen from. And from him, I found out that my interview results were very positive. He told me to expect a call the following Monday. And I got the job!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given 100 white marbles and 100 black marbles and two jaws. Put these marbles in the two jars in a way that would maximize the chance of retrieving a white marble from any given jaw.
      4 Answers
      12

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      Associate Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 13, 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Zaragoza
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Electronic Arts (Zaragoza) in Feb 2022

      Interview

      My process was a little weird, since I was redirected from another process that also took place with Electronic Arts (for a .NET Software Engineer - Full Stack role that didn't turn out). Regarding the ASE role, since I had already been contacted in an initial call with RRHH for the previous process, I didn't have that step and directly had an initial talk with the Technical Director and two members of the team. A couple of days later, I was contacted again in order to have a technical interview the next week, with the same members of the team. The technical test went pretty good, so that same afternoon they sent me an email asking if I had other offers on the table. In another couple of days, I had a short talk with RRHH during which they made me an offer. At the end of that same week, I had a zoom meeting where we reviewed the offer details, and as a final (and a little stressing) stage, they asked me to submit five references from people who had worked with me in the past, as a final requirement to be able to sign the offer and proceed with the hiring process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      In the initial interview, they asked me behavioral questions (what would I do if asked to work overtime, or if a superior told me that the code I was trying to submit wasn't good enough), and also very scarce technical questions (what is a stack overflow, the difference between virtual and abstract class, and the main difference between C++ and C#). The technical interview consisted of fixing localization bugs present in a code that they shared at that moment.
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      Associate Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 12, 2013
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      California, MD
      No offer
      Positive experience

      Associate Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 4, 2011
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Orlando, FL
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Electronic Arts (California, MD) in Jan 2013

      Interview

      Took 1 30 mins phone interrview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      nA Questions were very easy and on SQL
      1 Answer

      Application

      The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Electronic Arts (Orlando, FL) in Jul 2011

      Interview

      I got a phone call in July after applying in May for a position that I didn't even apply to but worked well with my skill set. The recruiter tells me that someone will contact me the next day to set up an interview time. I do get a call to come in the next week and a confirmation email the next day. So I visited for an onsite interview and meet the team, which were a really great set of people. A team of 5 I think with the development manager. Each of them asked me questions and it looks as if they had a set agenda of what they planned to accomplish in the interview. First I was asked about my education and employment experience, then technical questions (C#, SQL, Concurrency, OO Principles etc.), then questions about teamwork, constant changes in requirements, and time management. Next they asked if I had any specific questions. And that was the whole interview and it only took an hour, which is was the whole time allotted. Finally I needed to take the skills test (which apparently takes 3 hours) but apparently IT was having computer issues so HR said they would email it to me. I sent everyone thank you notes the next day and asked the talent coordinator when I would expect to get an email for the test. I asked once a week for a month and then two weeks later I asked if I was still being considered for the position because I haven't received anything yet and the position is still posted... No reply so I called, and was told someone should be getting in touch with me the next day and she gave me a number just in case...no call so I called and left a message. I sent her an email, no reply. I called again (a week after my message and email) and it now goes straight to voicemail. How crummy! After some research I now know that EA is pretty notorious for leaving people in the dark, it's like they never applied for a job before! The position is stil posted, so maybe they just haven't updated the site yet.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Explain data encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What does a virtual class do?
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      Question 3

      How would you prevent deadlock?
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      Question 4

      What SQL command would you use to get all rows in a table?
      2 Answers

      Question 5

      What would you do if you had a million dollars?
      2 Answers
      2