Electronic Arts Software Engineer interview experience

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Vancouver, BCPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was asked questions about my previous roles and then moved into C++ fundamentals—topics like pointers and memory, plus virtual functions.

They also asked about design patterns and UI architecture, which made it feel like they wanted both depth in C++ and an understanding of how UI systems are structured.

After the discussion, I got a coding problem that was very LeetCode-like. It wasn’t inherently hard, but I struggled with one specific aspect: I felt like I had to match the interviewer’s preferred approach instead of using my own style to solve it. That mismatch threw me off more than the difficulty of the problem itself.

I didn’t receive an offer. Honestly, the biggest reflection I had afterward was that the evaluation

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