Every Madden player knows the iconic introduction, “EA Sports, it’s in the game!” But for May Márquez ’20, MS ’21, an EA Sports software engineer, it’s more important what’s not in the game.
Márquez is a two-time computer science alumna from the College of Engineering and Computing who catches glitches in Madden. On a typical workday, she sifts through code in her Miami apartment while three different games of Madden run in the background, all of them being monitored for bugs.
“We have a system that alerts us to glitches. And every now and then, it’s fun to just watch the bots play,” Márquez says.
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