I applied online in early May and received an email from a recruiter in mid-June 2017. After the recruiter phone screening, I had two phone interviews with two different hiring managers (there were two open positions for which I was considered). From the moment I first heard from the recruiter via email, I started sensing red flags. Firstly, when the recruiter first emailed me to arrange for a phone screening, her emails (we had to go back and forth to set a time) were curt to the point of being rude. I brushed this off as merely a difference in communication styles. However, during the phone screening itself, I was again given red flags when she could not even answer basic HR questions about working for EA. For example, "what kind of insurance do you offer, and is there a waiting period?" These are fundamental decision-making questions that recruiters should know. However, I kept telling myself to give it a chance, because maybe she was just new or something. Then, the next big red flag came a week later during the first phone interview with the hiring manager. The recruiter never got back to me when I told her my availability for phone interviews, yet she scheduled an interview for me without telling me! So, randomly in the middle of the workday, I missed the interview call from the hiring manager. Apparently, she told him about the interview but never bothered to tell me, the candidate, when the interview was scheduled for! I reached out to both the hiring manager and the recruiter immediately, but I felt like she had already placed me in such a bad situation that, even though it was her fault, there is no way the hiring manager wouldn't look unfavorably on me for it. The recruiter was very apologetic and said, "sorry, I just forgot to tell you I set up an interview." I'm sorry, but how does this happen?! Missing an interview that I never knew existed made me look so bad to that hiring manager. She went on to say, "well things like this are common at EA. Let's just reschedule you and I promise I won't forget to tell you about the interview this time." Now, I am very understanding when it comes to occasional slips in communication, but the way she said this "happens all the time" gave me a very negative impression of communication at EA. Finally, she successfully scheduled me for phone interviews with both of the hiring managers. I don't want to say that either of them necessarily gave me red flags, per say, but I did not get a good feeling about the organizational culture. Both managers struck me as very cold and unfeeling. I don't necessarily care about having a warm and fuzzy manager, BUT at the same time I want to know that my manager cares about me as a human and isn't going to take advantage of my strong work ethic. I will say, I was appreciative that one of the managers was very candid about expecting 60-hour work weeks from his team. I'm not necessarily saying that the culture feel I got from both managers was necessarily bad, but it was definitely a bad fit for me personally. I value work-life balance and want a manager who doesn't just view me as a workhorse churning out reports. Even if I had progressed to later rounds in the interview process, based on everything I mentioned above, there is no way I would have accepted this role at EA, for any amount of money.