Electronic Arts Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

CanadaPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter call first, and after that I ended up with a total of five interviews: a recruiter touchpoint, then time with a hiring manager, and finally three “final round” interviews.

The format felt lopsided from the start because everything depended on the recruiter, and the details I was given about what to expect were vague enough that I couldn’t reliably study for the right thing.

The system-design session was the biggest surprise. My recruiter had framed it as “technical architecture,” then clarified it as mostly frontend work with React. But once I got into the interview, React didn’t really play a meaningful role. Instead, I was pushed into a mix of OOP principles, performance optimization/debugging, and I still had to end with a system-design style question. I

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