The Best Places to Work ...and Play:
Anybody Work Here?

WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACK
PopCap Games had its first $100 million year in 2010—thanks in part to its popular online games Plants vs. Zombies and Zuma—but they can still have fun with a couple water cooler jugs and some tape, elements of their makeshift miniature golf course. And beware employees in zombie masks who challenge you to a game of Skee-Ball. They play to the death.

WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER
Design firm McKinstry has it all at its SoDo site: The prefabrication shop is next door to corporate headquarters, which features an employee gym and indoor basketball court.

Did we mention the driving range on the roof?

READING A KINDLE 
BY THE FIRE
Though Amazon is known for its frugality—those infamous door desks—its plush perks in its new South Lake Union headquarters include: a grand room at 440 Terry Avenue North that comes complete with a fireplace, fresh Caffè Umbria coffee, and cozy armchairs that are perfect for laptopping or napping.

A dog (and human) watering hole.

Games in the programmers’ “library”.

GAME ON
Microsoft’s Redmond campus rivals the University of Washington’s, with soccer and baseball fields, basketball, volleyball, and bocce ball courts, and plenty of lawn for Frisbee and cricket. Yes, cricket. They keep things classy on the Eastside.