What does The Sims 4 have to do with job boards? Not much, at first glance. Reaper, Diamond Agent, Salaryperson. Fun titles, sure. Fictional, though. You can't apply to any of them. The real question sits elsewhere. Where do game industry jobs at EA, Maxis, and other studios get posted in the first place? And which boards actually help you find them? Start with the official EA careers site. Add one specialty game-industry board. Add one broad platform. No single board owns the market.
The Sims 4 Career Rankings Do Not Map to Real Hiring
Simoleons aren't real currency. A tier list ranks fictional careers by pay. That's all it does. It can't get you hired at Maxis. Build a job search on top of it and you've wasted a month. The Sims 4 topic itself lives in game guides, not job sites. What carries over is the publisher. EA publishes The Sims, and EA lists real openings. Search those the way you'd search any large employer. The bridge is stronger than it looks.
Where EA and Maxis Post Real Jobs
EA runs its own careers pages, and that's where you should start. Maxis appears on the EA Studios page among the company's teams, credited with The Sims and Spore. Software development, production, game design. Those are the disciplines the page says Maxis roles can include. Helpful detail. You aren't confined to engineering if you want to work on games there.
Then there's location. Open the EA locations page before you touch any city filter. Studios, support centers, regional teams. EA has them spread across several markets. Many roles are hybrid or tied to one office. A remote-only search buries those postings without warning. Read the location notes. It's a quick habit that saves wasted applications.
To be honest, official pages have limits. Recruiters post on LinkedIn first sometimes. Some teams move faster through their own channels. Still, if an aggregator and an official page disagree, the official page wins. It's the cleanest source you have.
Game Industry Job Boards Compared
Turns out no board covers everything, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something. Your right mix depends on discipline and how much filtering you'll tolerate. Here's the short comparison for EA and Maxis searches.
| Source | Best for | What to verify |
|---|---|---|
| EA Careers and Maxis team pages | Official studio roles, location filters, and company updates | Search by discipline and location; not every team posts every role. |
| LinkedIn game studio search | Recruiter posts, alerts, and referral signals | High volume; listings can be stale or duplicated. |
| ASGC Games Jobs | Aggregated openings from EA, Epic, Riot, Ubisoft, and other major studios | Aggregators can lag behind company pages. |
| Game Industry Career Guide | A large directory of studio and company job boards | Directory links age; verify each lead on the official site. |
| Workello video game job board list | Discovery of niche boards and communities | It is a roundup, so treat rankings and discounts as marketing. |
| Ultracasual game industry job sites | Finding studios, esports, web3, and tech-adjacent roles | Lists change; some entries may be outdated. |
ASGC groups roles into engineering, art, design, production, QA, audio, marketing, and more. Useful when you haven't picked a lane. Game Industry Career Guide makes a point worth stealing: postings vanish fast during layoffs, studio consolidation, and closures. Set alerts. Don't check once a month. A monthly check mostly surfaces closed roles.
A Search Workflow That Beats Random Browsing
Random browsing burns hours. This order doesn't.
- Pick a discipline before a company. Studios hire by function: engineering, design, production, QA, art, audio, marketing, analytics, support. Browse ASGC's categories to see groupings, then pick one or two functions where your experience fits.
- Search official pages first. Open EA's studio page, find Maxis or whichever team matches your skills, and set a saved search or alert. Repeat for two or three studios you'd genuinely join.
- Add one specialty board and one broad board. ASGC or Game Industry Career Guide surfaces studios you didn't know existed. LinkedIn catches recruiter posts and referral openings. Two boards is plenty.
- Track down the original source before you apply. Aggregated posts expire or point to old requisitions. Open the company's own listing and save that URL.
- Tailor your resume to the listing. Mirror the description's language for tools, platforms, and responsibilities. If the role asks for shipped features, bug reporting, or cross-team production work, put that evidence near the top.
- Prepare for the interview loop before you need it. Read the process notes below, build a project story bank, and rehearse one technical or portfolio walkthrough out loud.
What EA Interviews Usually Include
Plan for several conversations, not one big meeting. Dataford collects reports describing a multi-step process. Recruiter screen. Hiring manager conversation. Team member interviews. Technical and behavioral evaluation. Several people weigh in before a final decision. Each stage tests a different signal. A strong coder can still trip in the behavioral round.
Coding rounds are the most predictable part. TechPrep says EA focuses on medium to hard data structures and algorithms problems, with an online assessment giving about 75 minutes for 2 to 3 problems. Detecting a cycle in an undirected graph is one cited example. Practice patterns. Memorized answers collapse the second a problem shifts slightly.
Design roles face a different round. TechInterview.org describes a game-systems design round that may ask you to design an inventory system, a matchmaking flow, or an entity-component setup, then defend your data layout and update loop. That's a design conversation. Not a trivia quiz.
Behavioral rounds carry weight too. Dataford notes interviewers often connect your experience to how you work with others. TechPrep recommends a story bank of 5 to 6 projects covering collaboration, technical decision-making, and ownership. Write them down. Practice each one in under two minutes. Feels awkward. It works.
Common Mistakes in Game Industry Job Searches
Running everything through one board is the biggest mistake. LinkedIn alone misses studio pages, specialty boards, and referral routes that move faster than cold applications.
Thing is, QA keeps getting treated as a fallback. Game Industry Career Guide pushes back on the idea that testers just play games all day. The job involves bug reports, reproduction steps, and platform checks. Real discipline. Not a hobby with a controller.
Location trips people up more quietly. EA's location page shows teams in different cities and regions. A remote-only filter hides hybrid roles or ones expecting occasional studio time. If a posting says hybrid, ask what the in-office expectation actually is.
The generic resume is the last common miss. A game studio hiring manager wants relevant tools and shipped work, and vague enthusiasm reads as neither, so if you're targeting production you show schedules, risk tracking, and cross-team communication, and if you're targeting engineering you show systems you built, performance work, or tools you wrote. Match the evidence to the role.
A Note on Sims 4 Career Cheats and Tier Lists
Sims 4 promotion cheats aren't here. Those are game commands. The original Reaper, Diamond Agent, and Salaryperson list is fun reading, but it won't help with a salary negotiation. This page sticks to actual job boards and hiring platforms. Game mechanics stay game mechanics. Paid work stays paid work.
What to Do Next
Open EA's careers page and search for Maxis roles in your discipline. Set an alert while you're there. Then pick one specialty board, like ASGC or Game Industry Career Guide, and one broad platform, like LinkedIn. Tomorrow, spend 20 minutes tailoring your resume to a single listing. Better than firing off ten applications with the same file. That's a real pipeline. No Simoleons required.