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Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Randy Pausch on Electronic Arts
With all of the recent court actions against EA, I thought I'd post this great insider's look at Electronic Arts. Randy Pausch, Professor of Computer Science, HCI, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University, spent a summer at EA in residence, and analysed their business models, corporate culture, and tried to get at what makes EA the 5th largest software manufacturer in the world (!).
From the executive summary:
Facts academics should know about EA:
• EA plans to fill over 1,000 positions/year in the near future.
• EA has traditionally hired 10% of new hires from universities and wants to increase that number to 75%.
• Making games at EA is a team sport: between 20 and 200 people work on each game.
• EA is a huge company, bigger than Apple and Pixar combined. EA has a $15B market capitalization and $3B/year in revenues.
• EA is a ruthless meritocracy with a brutally honest culture, especially for critique and feedback.
• One of EA's major strengths is in management of people and process.
• The largest sin at EA is not delivering your game on time.
• EA has a very young, energetic work force.
• People at EA work long hours, in large part because of their great passion for making games.
Link [via Toddy]
