EA DICE interview, decoded.

Candidate accounts on Glassdoor describe the Stockholm loop; EA's studio-wide engineering loop, documented by interview guides, describes the rounds some DICE roles add. Both are below.

DICE's recruiter and its candidates describe the same bar.

• Craft in C++ that survives a review by three senior developers
• Judgment under performance constraints, said out loud
• Having played the game and knowing the studio, which the recruiter names as the minimum preparation
• Speaking about former employers without bitterness; the recruiter names it as a fail
• A portfolio or public code that shows what you can build

The assignment interview is the questions; the themes below are what the rest of the loop reportedly covers.

Levels.fyi for software engineers at Electronic Arts in Greater Stockholm, read on 13 September 2026: the median package is SEK 831K; an SE 2 reports SEK 618K base plus SEK 102K stock and SEK 57K bonus, an SE 3 SEK 825K base plus 225K stock and 124K bonus. Few Stockholm reports sit behind the senior figure. EA stock and bonus put DICE above the independent studios and near King; our Stockholm salary page has the comparison.

1. 01Treat the home assignment as twenty hours of your best code. Readable names, small functions, the performance constraint met and measured, and a short note on what you would do next. Three senior developers will read it; write it for them.
2. 02Prepare to be questioned until you fail. For every decision in the assignment, know the alternative you rejected and why; when the questions pass what you know, say so plainly. That edge is how they place your level, not a mark against you.
3. 03Drill the C++ they ask about: ownership and RAII, move semantics, virtual dispatch cost, cache-friendly data layout. Engine and gameplay rounds are built on it.
4. 04Be able to trace a frame and explain client-side prediction. Rendering and networking are the DICE domain rounds, and a shooter's feel depends on both.
5. 05Play the current Battlefield, and put your code where they can see it. The studio's recruiter has said both, in those words.

This guide covers EA DICE's engineering and research hiring. For management and leadership roles the loop is similar but the bar shifts to people, delivery and strategy, so pair it with the leadership interview prep hub. The bar for your exact role comes from the role-by-role guides, and the prep that actually transfers is spoken, so run a mock interview before the real one.

• 01Glassdoor, DICE Sweden software engineer interview experiencescandidate accounts of the home assignment of about twenty hours over a week, a small C++ project with performance constraints, the technical interview with three senior developers questioning every decision until you fail, the HR video call and the meeting with the team lead and future manager
• 02Glassdoor, DICE Sweden interview experiencesthe 72.7 percent positive rating, 2.95 out of 5 difficulty, and the 54-day average across reported interviews
• 03techinterview, Electronic Arts interview guide (2026)EA's engineering loop of a 60 to 90 minute phone screen and a four to six round onsite with two coding rounds, game-systems design, a domain round and behavioural; the C++ topics; the DICE-specific rendering, networking and client-side prediction themes; four to seven weeks
• 04MCV/Develop, recruiter hot seat: EA DICEDICE's head of recruitment on putting your code or portfolio online, arriving prepared and having played the game, not speaking badly of former employers, and relocating international hires through the same test and interview process
• 05Levels.fyi, Electronic Arts software engineer pay in Greater Stockholmthe SEK 831K median package and the SE 2, SE 3 and Senior SE 2 medians with base, stock and bonus
• 06Wikipedia, DICEthe studio's history, Battlefield, and the Frostbite engine

Interview processes change. This reflects widely-reported and sourced conditions as of 2026 — confirm specifics with your recruiter, and treat it as a map rather than a guarantee.