Electronic Arts Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

MadridPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I hit the process with an awkward technical moment early on.

The interviewers didn’t seem to know C++, and they asked me three questions related to it. I remember feeling like I should have kept things simpler and answered at a very beginner level.

What threw me off was that I think I over-explained. I ended up giving answers that went beyond what they were clearly expecting, and it made me feel like I wasn’t aligning with the bar they were using. The questions felt like they were pointing toward very basic misunderstandings—things you wouldn’t typically be taught in depth until later.

Even though the round felt “easy” in difficulty, the mismatch in

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