Is this their strategy to motivate existing employees, or to attract top talent?  Regarding their recent round of layoffs:

“This was a small and somewhat routine event for this time of year when many of our titles are finished and being shipped,” said a statement by EA.

To be fair, many studios lay lots of people off, or plain close up shop, when they can’t pay the bills after their title ships.    Furthermore, a gigantic company like EA is simply going to lay off more people than a smaller company would.  But with statements like this, could a prospective applicant look at EA as anything but a resume builder out of school, or a stopgap between other jobs?  Maybe EA realizes that if you still want to work there, nothing they can say is going to change that.

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