IT Director applicants have rated the interview process at Electronic Arts with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for IT Director roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Electronic Arts overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Electronic Arts as a IT Director according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Electronic Arts (Redwood City, CA)
Interview
Submitted resume to an external recruiter on LinkedIn Jobs. They responded in after about 2 weeks.
The recruiter arranged for a 30 minute phone interview. The recruiter conducted a thorough interview. The questions covered background, experience leading people and knowledge about managing operations teams. There was a focus on Incident Management and Problem Management.
The next interview was arranged with the EA team, a 1 hour team interview. The team was comprised of the managers that would report to the director. It was a standard well conducted interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no especially tough questions most were based on the ability to manage teams and customers. "How would you handle a customer in a given situation?" being the toughest.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Electronic Arts (Redwood City, CA) in May 2010
Interview
15 levels of interview, mostly on past achievements, challenges, and how I had handled them. Responsibilities handled. I felt that my manager was trying to get a consensus built.