A College Guide to EA

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."

Re:Editors, we get it

[ral315]

And there's also an E and an A in Flamebait!

Re:I don't get the hostility

[Anonymous Coward]

I fully agree with you.

And then some people wonder why IT is being outsourced. Get off your asses, fuckers. Who told you to set up a family or have a social life? I don't. I have a job and I make lots of money and I like my work.

The article summary could use work

[Anonymous Coward]

As a typical slashdot poster, I'm not supposed to have to even read the primary link before I spout off in the comments section. The submitter does the readin', I do the commentin'. That's tradition. Ergo I find it very disturbing when I can't even fathom what the summary's about without following secondary links. That's just unacceptable, pardner.

Re:I thought I'd surf at -1...

[Anonymous Coward]

I... I can't read!

Go set up your own company.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hire only single, no-life, no-experience kids, who still believe that having more money than anybody else is the be-all-and-end-all of existence and will get them laid whenever they feel like it. Work yourselves into an early grave (with a very expensive funeral, with all the best trimmings).

Otherwise just shut the fuck up.

Slashdot crowd sets reading record

[pb9494]

Article gets posted at 3.57 PM. Half an hour later, already 40 posts... Come on guys, it's a 26 page article.

NewSpeak

[felonius maximus]

You have a double-plus-good grasp of NewSpeak.

Do you work for EA's Ministry of Truth?

Re:Go set up your own company.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hehe. Gotcha! ;)

Re:We're talking about Electronic Arts, right?

[brilinux]

Well, I go to Carnegie Mellon, and from what I have seen, this is not a class, but a lacture, which, from a student's standpoint, probably means that there will be free food in Baker Hall soon ... perhaps I will drop by and see what they have to say.

Pass that Kool-Aid baby!!!

[nolsen]

Jesus Christ, that guy has his nose so far up EA's ass he knows what all the execs had for dinner last night. WTF is going on here? Man I thought my univerisity had some clueless corporate tools on staff. Can you say sellout? CMU should be ashamed. Preparing students is one thing, but they should be prepared for success, not being eaten alive. Notice how he doesn't actually talk about the work he did there? Something tells he spent his residency bullshitting with execs, not writing code 12 hours a day.

Re:Coralisedm just in case

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu.nyud.net:8090/user/tshah /PauschAcademicsFieldGuideToEA.pdf [nyud.net]

New and improved without karma whoring!

New EA branch opening in Germany.

[Zip In The Wire]

I got a snapshot of it: The Front Gate [wherescherie.com] Oh yes. Their motto here is "Work will make you free". Marvelous.

Re:New EA branch opening in Germany.

[Greg_D]

That was a mistranslation, cuz the motto on the front gate of the US offices is: "Here you work for free."