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A College Guide to EA

Posted by Zonk on from the profs-can-teach-you-almost-anything dept.

DesiVideoGamer writes "With all the recent news about EA, one of the professors at Carnegie Mellon University is giving a talk about EA after he visited the company for a semester. He also published a white paper about EA and what college grads should know about it. (pdf format) The paper talks a lot about the culture at EA and could indirectly explain the previous stories covered by Slashdot."

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  1. Re:I can see why EA approved this document... by ronfar · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Yeah, it reminds me of a Babylon 5 comic I once read that was done as a PsiCorps recruiting guide.

    The main thing I noticed about it is the "brutally honest culture" whereas the stories that have been coming out of EA for years are that dishonesty is the order of the day. I think that it can only be one or the other, I tend to believe that it is a brutally dishonest, corporate backstabbing culture, much like Office Space or Angel's Wolfram and Hart. (I can imagine Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole) doing well as a manager at EA, can't you? "Yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in this Sunday, we're behind in the project and we need to play catch up.")

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